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Embraceor

One guilty of embracery

Fornicatress

A woman guilty of fornication

verdict

that ordinarily in civil actions is for the plaintiff or for the defendant and in criminal actions is guilty or not guilty compare judgment compromise verdict : a verdict produced not by sincere unanimous agreement on guilt

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arraign

to bring (a defendant) before a judge or magistrate to hear the charges and to plead usually either guilty or not guilty compare indict NOTE: For a person to be formally arraigned, he or she must be

Culprit

Culprit. The prisoner at the Bar awaiting his trial after a plea of not guilty. 'Its first recorded use is in the trial of the Earl of Pembroke for murder in 1678. Its

False pretence, obtaining property

may be afterwards made or converted into, or used or dealt with as, a valuable security; shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and on conviction thereof liable to penal servitude for any term not exceeding five years.

Public meeting

the purpose of preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting was called together shall be guilty of an offence, and, if the offence is committed at a political meeting held in any parliamentary constituency

Mens rea

Mens rea, a guilty mind. See ACTUS NON FACIT REUM, NISI MENS SIT REA. Although prima facie and as a general rule

Arraign

consists of calling upon him by name, reading to him the indictment, demanding of him whether he be guilty or not guilty, and entering his plea. The pleas upon arraignment are either the general issue, i.e., not

Defence

arraigned before the Court, and asked by the Clerk, after stating the charge, 'How say you, are you guilty or not guilty ?' he either confesses the charge by saying 'Guilty,' or words equivalent thereto, stands mute,

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