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return 1 a : to give (an official account or report) to a superior (as by a list or statement) [ the names of all residents in the ward] [ a list of jurors] b : to bring back (as a writ, verdict, or indictment) to an office or tribunal [the sheriff must the execution…to the proper clerk within sixty days "J. H. Friedenthal et al."] [the grand jury ed six indictments] [ed a verdict of not guilty] 2 : to bring in or produce (as earnings or profit) : yield re·turn·able adj n 1 a : the delivery of a court order (as a writ) to the proper officer or court b : proof of service 2 : return day 3 : an account or formal report (as of an action performed or duty discharged or of facts and statistics) [census s] ;esp : a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information usually used in pl. 4 a : a report of the results of balloting [election s] b : an official declaration of the election of a candidate [each house shall be the judge of the elections, s,...
Acquittal in fact
Acquittal in fact, means an acquittal by a jury verdict of not guilty, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 24....
Attainder
Attainder [fr. attaindre, Fr. (attainder, O. F.-Roquef.); attingo, Lat., which signifies the apprehension of the object of a chase], the stain or corruption of the blood of a criminal capitally condemned; it is the immediate inseparable consequence, by the Common Law, of sentence of death being pronounced, or of outlawry for a capital offence. the criminal then becomes dead in law, technically called civiliter mortuus. It differs from conviction in that it is after judgment, whereas conviction isupon the verdict of guilty but before judgment pronounced, and may be quashed upon some point of law reserved, or judgment may be arrested. See Co. Litt. 390 b, 391 a.A descendant may now trace descent through an attainted ancestor by virtue of the (English) Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), s. 10; and by the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 23), it is now provided that no conviction for treason or felony shall cause attainder or forfeiture. See BILL OF ATTAINDER....
Press
Press. By the (English) Local Authorities (Admission of the Press to Meetings) Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 43), passed inconsequence of the decision in Tenby Corporation v. Mason, (1908) 1 Ch 457, the ex-pression 'representatives of the Press' means duly accredited representatives of newspapers and duly accredited representatives of news agencies which systematically carry on the business of selling and supplying reports and information to newspapers. Though the Act gives a general right of admission, there is power by resolution temporarily to exclude the Press. See LOCAL AUTHORITY.There is no longer any censorship of the Press in this country, and any man may write and publish whatever he pleases concerning another, subject only to this--that he must take the consequences, if a jury should deem his words defamatory (Odgers on Libel, p. 10). 'The liberty of the Press consists in printing without any previous licence, subject to the consequences of law', R. v. Dean of St. Asaph, (1784) 3 T...
frame
frame framed fram·ing 1 : to formulate the contents of and draw up (as a document) [in the two hundred years since our Constitution was framed "W. J. Brennan, Jr."] 2 : to contrive the evidence against (as an innocent person) so that a verdict of guilty is assured ...
Convict
Convict, a person found guilty of a crime or offence alleged against him, either by a verdict of a jury or other legal decision. The (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), for abolishing forfeitures for treason and felony enables the Crown to appoint administrators of the Property of any convict sentenced to death or penal servitude for any treason or felony. The administrator has an absolute discretionary power of dealing with the convict' property, Carr v. Anderson, (1903) 2 Ch 279....
Fly for it
Fly for it. On a criminal trial in former times it was usual after the verdict, even if not guilty, to inquire also: 'Did he fly for it ?' Forfeiture of goods followed a conviction upon such inquiry. This practice, after having been long discontinued, was generally abolished by the (English) Criminal Law Act, 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28), s. 5. There is a saying, Fatetur facinus qui judicium fugit (3 Inst. 14)-'He who flies from justice confesses his guilt.'...
Mercy, Recommendation to
Mercy, Recommendation to. It has for many years been common for a jury in finding a prisoner guilty, especially where the crime is murder, to accompany their verdict by a recommendation of the prisoner to the mercy of the Crown on certain named grounds. Such a recommendation has no legal effect whatever, but is usually attended to. Convicts, however, have been hanged inspite of it...
Mitigation
Mitigation, abatement of anything penal, harsh, or painful. An address in mitigation is a speech made by the defendant or his counsel to the judge, after verdict or plea of guilty, and which may be followed by a speech in aggravation from the prosecuting counsel.By 27 & 28 Vict.c.110, justices were prohibited from mitigating minimum penalties in pursuance of any power of mitigating penalties conferred on such justices by any local or private Act of Parliament; but this Act is repealed, as to England, by the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, which gives an al-most unlimited power of mitigating such penalties as may be imposed by justices. See also the Probation of Offenders Act,1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 17).Mitigation, means measures aimed at reducing the impact or effects of a disaster. [Gujarat State Disaster Management Act, 2003, s. 2(m)]...
Inquisition
Inquisition, inquiry, inquest; the finding of a tribunal charged to inquire. The three best known inquisitions are:-1. A coroner's inquisition, which is [see (English) Coroners Act,1887, s. 4, sub-s. 3] a certificate of the verdict of the jury, 'setting forth, so far as such particulars have been proved to them, who the deceased was, and how, when, and where the deceased came by his death; and if he came by his death by murder or manslaughter, the persons, if any, whom the jury find to have been guilty of such murder or manslaughter, or of being accessories before the fact to such murder.' The inquisition must be signed by the jurors. A form is given in the Third Schedule of the (English) Coroners Rules, 1927 (S.R. & O. 1927, No. 344/L. 13). See also CORONER.2. Inquisition as to lunacy, which is an inquiry directed by the judge in lunacy, as to whether a person is of unsound mind and incapable of managing his affairs. It is held before a jury, if the person alleged to be of unsound min...
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