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Impechiare

Impechiare, to impeach, to accuse, or prosecute for felony or treason

Cravare

Cravare, to impeach, Leg. Hen. 1, c. 30.

impeach

misconduct in office see also Article I and Article II of the Constitution in the back matter NOTE: Impeachment is the first step in removing an officer from office. The president, vice president, and other federal officers

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Waste

unconscientious abuse of the privileges of non-impeachability for waste at Common Law, whereby a tenant for life, without impeachment of waste, will be restrained from committing wilful, destructive, malicious, or extravagant waste, such as pulling down houses,

Pardon

& 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), no pardon under the Great Seal of England is pleadable to an impeachment by the Commons in Parliament. But after the impeachment has been solemnly heard and determined, the prerogative of

Being under sentence of life imprisonment

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

Antecedent debt

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

rehabilitate

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

witness

party by whom the witness is called [sought to have his witness declared an adverse witness subject to impeachment] called also hostile witness see also leading question at question alibi witness : a witness upon whom a

Absque impetitione vasti

Absque impetitione vasti [Lat.] (without impeachment of waste), a reservation frequently made to a tenant for life, that no man shall proceed against him

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