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called on with the Magistrate on the bench, the accused in the dock and the representative of the prosecution and defence, if the accused is defended, present in court for the hearing of the case, Dagdu Govindset

Case, action on the

to be a term of art. For different kinds of actions of trespass on the case, see Malicious Prosecution; Negligence; Deceit; Libel; Slander; Seduction; Lights; Ways; Seducing From Service. A proceeding, action, suit or controversy at law

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English) Limitation Act, 1623,

Legal proceedings

given; includes an arbitration, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 2, p. 1439. Means steps or measures adopted in the prosecution or defence of an action, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 816.

Other legal proceeding

legal proceeding, the expression 'other legal proceeding' must be read ejusdem generis with the preceding words 'suit' and prosecution as they constitute a genus. The penalty and adjudication proceedings in question did not fall within the expression

penal action

one who violates a law and that is punitive rather than remedial in nature ;also : a criminal prosecution

Impeachment

Impeachment, a prosecution by the House of Commons before the House of Lords of any person, either peer or commoner, for

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