Guilty Verdict - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: guilty verdict Page: 3Discharge of a jury
Discharge of a jury takes place (1) either by the act of God, as the death of one of the jury; or (2) in due course on the termination of the trial by verdict (or sentence); or by the discretion of the judge determining that they are so exhausted as to be incapable of continuing their deliberations, or so divided as to be unable ever to agree, or that there is other sufficient cause. After such discharge there may be a further trial by another jury. See Winsor v. The Queen, (1866) LR 1 QB 289 (390), in which the Exchequer Chamber held this upon writ of error in a trial for murder in which the jury had declared at five minutes before a Saturday midnight that they were unable to agree, and on a second trial another jury found the prisoner guilty and she was sentenced to death and afterwards hanged....
Maintenance
Maintenance, an officious intermeddling in a suit which in no wise concerns one, by assisting either party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it; both actionable and indictable [see Bradlaugh v. Newdegate, (1883) 11 QBD 1], and invalidates contracts involving it. By the Roman Law it was a species of crimen falsi to enterin to any confederacy, or do any act to support another's law-suits, by money, witnesses, or patronage, 4 Bl. Com. 134.It is either ruralis, in the country as where one assists another in his pretensions to lands, by taking or holding the possession of them for him; or where one stirs up quarrels or suits in the country; or it is curialis, in a Court of justice, where one officiously intermeddles in a suit depending in any court, which does not belong to him, and with which he has nothing to do, 2 Rol. Abr. 115. Maintaining suits in the spiritual courts is not within the statutes relating to maintenance, Cro. Eliz. 549. A man may, however, maintain a suit in...
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