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Pardon, forgiveness of a crime; remission of punis-hment.The pardoning of criminals is the peculiar preroga-tive of the sovereign. See 4 Steph. Com., 7th Edn.The sovereign may pardon all offences merely against the Crown and the public, excepting: (1) That to preserve the liberty of the subject, the committing any man to prison out of the realm is, by the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2, c. 2), made a pr'munire (see that title), unpardonable even by the Crown; and (2) that the sovereign cannot pardon where private justice is principally concerned in the prosecution of offenders--'non potest rex gratiam facere cum injuria et damno aliorum.'Neither at Common Law could the sovereign pardon an offence against a penal statute after information brought; for thereby the informer had acquired private property in his part of the penalty. But the Remission of Penalties Act, 1859, enables the Crown to remit penalties for offences, although payable to parties other than the Crown; and a special power...
Bote
Bote [fr. bot, A.S.; beton, to repair, synonymous with estovers, Fr.; esroffer, to furnish], necessaries for the maintenance and carrying on of husbandry. The owner of an estate for life or for years is entitled, even if he is impeachable for waste and unless expressly restrained by the terms of the conveyance, settlement, or devise, to reasonable estovers or botes, i.e., necessary wood, such as house-bote, plough-bote, cart-bote, and hay-bote or hedge-bote. House-bote is a sufficient allowance of wood from off the estate to repair or burn in the house, and sometimes termed fire-bote; plough-bote and cart-bote are wood to be employed in making and repairing all instruments of husbandry; and hay-bote or hedge-bote is wood for repairing of hays, hedges, or fences. The word also signifies reparation for any damage or injury done, as man-bote, which was a compensation or amends for a man slain, etc., 2 Bl. Com. 35; Jac. Law Dict.A compensation or profit; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Impeachable
That may be impeached liable to impeachment chargeable with a crime...
Tail
Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way of trust and which (if not barred or disposed of by will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person who would have taken realty as heir of the body or as tenant by the curtesy if the Law of Property Act, 1925, had not been passed [s. 130 (4) (ibid.)]The limitation of an estate so that it can be inherited only by the fee owner's issue or class of issue, Black's Law dictionary 7th Edn., p. 1466.An estate-tail in land now constitutes a settlement. [(English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 1]With this and other statutory modifications under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, the rules relating to this form of estate are still applicable (a) in the investigation of all titles to land in existence on the 31st December, 1925; (b) in the construction of equitable interests into which th...
rehabilitate
rehabilitate -tat·ed -tat·ing 1 : to restore to a former capacity ;specif : to restore credibility to (a witness or testimony) [the State simply brought out all of the prior statements to qualify or explain the inconsistency and to the witness "People v. Page, 550 N.E.2d 248 (1990)"] compare impeach NOTE: A witness whose trial testimony is inconsistent with his or her pretrial usually sworn statements is considered impeached. Such a witness may be rehabilitated usually on redirect examination. There are various state and federal evidentiary rules governing what evidence (as character evidence) is admissible to rehabilitate a witness. 2 a : to restore to a former state (as of good repair or solvency) [if the debtor wishes to liquidate rather than reorganize or the farming operation "J. H. Williamson"] b : to restore (as a convicted criminal defendant) to a useful and constructive place in society through therapy, job training, and other counseling re·ha·bil...
Antecedent debt
Antecedent debt, means antecedent in fact as well as in time, that is to say, that the debt must be truly independent of and not part of the transactions impeached. The debt may be a debt incurred in connection with a trade started by the father, V. Prasad v. Govindswami Mudaliar, (1982) 1 SCC 185 (203): AIR 1982 SC 84.Antecedent debt in this context means a debt antecedent in fact as well as in time, i.e., the debt must be truly independent and not part of the mortgage which is impeached. In other words, the prior debt must be independent of the debt for which the mortgage is created and the two transaction must be dissociated in fact so that they cannot be regarded as part of the same transaction, Virdhachalam Pillai v. Chaldean Syrian Bank Ltd, 1964 SC 1425: AIR (1964) 5 SCR 647....
Being under sentence of life imprisonment
Being under sentence of life imprisonment, means it would be limited to a sentence which has become final, absolute and indivisible so far as judicial process is concerned. In a broad sense, it may also include a sentence which has not become final, but is being impeached or is still liable to be impeached by way of appeal or revision or other mode known to law, Dilip Kumar Sharma v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1976 SC 133: (1976) 2 SCR 289: (1976) 1 SCC 560. [Penal Code (45 of 1860), s. 303]...
Judge
Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge but also every person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, definitive judgment, or a judgment which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgment which, is confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive or who is one of a body of persons which body of persons is em-powered by law to give such a judgement (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 19)To secure the dignity and political independence of the judges of the Supreme Court, it is enacted by s. 5 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1875 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 12), repeating in effect a provision of the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), that the judges of the Supreme Court (with the exception of the Lord Chancellor, who goes out with the Ministry) shall hold their o...
Gestu et fama
Gestu et fama, an obsolete writ, resorted to when a person's good behaviour was impeached, Lamb.Eiren., 1. 4, c. 14....
Gravare et gravatio
Gravare et gravatio, an accusation or impeachment, Leg. Ethel. c. xix...
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