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Probate
(f)] Official proof of a will. This is obtained by the executor in all Probate Division of the High Court of Justice, and is either in common form, where the will is undisputed and quite regular, or
Gordon Riots
suppressed, but not until an immense amount of damage had been done. Lord George Gordon was indicted for high treason on the charge of levying war against the King. He was defended by Erskine and acquitted for … the charge of levying war against the King. He was defended by Erskine and acquitted for want of evidence; see 21 St. Tr. 485; Lecky's Hist. of England in the Eighteenth Century, ch. xii. For an account
independent counsel
by the court at the request of the U.S. Attorney General to investigate and prosecute criminal violations by high government officials, members of Congress, or directors of a presidential reelection campaign after a preliminary investigation by the … directors of a presidential reelection campaign after a preliminary investigation by the Attorney General finds specific and credible evidence that a crime may have been committed NOTE: The use of an independent counsel was codified in the
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Misprision
Misprision [fr. mepris, Fr.], neglect, negligence, or oversight. All such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon, are misprisions; and it is said … arrogant and undutiful behaviour towards the sovereign and government. And to endeavour to dissuade a witness from giving evidence, to dis-close an examination before the Privy Council, or to advise a prisoner to stand mute (all of
Judgment
An order for transfer of a suit made under clause 13 of the Letters Patent of the Calcutta High Court is not a 'judgment' within the meaning of cl. 15 of the Letters Patent and no appeal … 'judgment' means the expression of the opinion of the court arrived at after a due consideration of the evidence and all the arguments, Ramautar Thakur v. State of Bihar, AIR 1957 Pat 33 (35). (Criminal PC, 1898,
Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English)
TRIAL. Regarding an appeal to the Court of Appeal from a conviction in relation to non-repair of a highway, a saving was inserted in the Criminal Appeal Act, s. 20 (3), and the Judicature Act, 1925, s. … first, the Beck case,which resulted in the Beck Commission of 1904 (and as to which see Best on Evidence, 10th Edn. At p. 438); and, secondly, the Edalji case. The Court of Criminal Appeal, which is constituted
Alibi
when the occurrence took place he was so far away from the place of occurrence that it is highly improbable that he would have participated in the crime. Alibi is not an exception (special or general envisaged … in order to prove that he could not have committed the crime with which he is charged, offers evidence that he was in a different place at the time the offence was committed. Else ware, in law
Affairs of State
amplitude and will mean the entire business of State. It takes in the routine day-to-day administration and also highly confidential acts involving defence and foreign relations, and also in modern times the multifarious activities of a welfare
According to law
According to law, the High Court under the revisional jurisdiction is obliged to test the order of the Rent Controller on the touchstone … touchstone of 'whether it is according to law' and for that limited purpose may enter into re-appraisal of evidence for the purpose of ascertaining whether the conclusion arrived at by the Rent Controller is wholly unreasonable or
Abscond
6 of the (English) Debtors Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict., C. 62), in any action in the High Court in which before the Act the debtor might have been arrested on 'mesne process,' the plaintiff may … six months (unless he has sooner given security not to quit England without leave of the Court) on proof that he has good cause of action to the amount of 50/. or upwards; that there is probable
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