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Nuisance
A public nuisance may give rise to proceedings of different kinds:- (1) It may give ground for an indictment by a private individual, or a criminal information at the suit of the Attorney-General. (2) It may give
Police supervision
Police supervision. Where a person is twice con-victed on indictment he may be subject to police supervision for not more than seven years in addition to any other
Obsolete
taken generally at the present day; otherwise 'eavesdroppers' and 'scolds' (see those titles) would still be liable to indictment.
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Offence
is used as a genus, comprehending every crime and misde-meanour, or as a species, signifying a crime not indictable, but punishable summarily, or by the forfeiture of a penalty. There are certain acts which are heinous sins
Omne majus continet in se minus
in se minus. Jenk. Cent. 208, (The greater contains or embraces the less; e.g., a person on an indictment for murder may be convicted of manslaughter.)
Open Court
Open Court. Every Court of Justice is open to every subject of the King, Scott v. Scott, 1913 AC 417 (440). By statute the place where justices summarily convict is an open Court [(English) Summary Jurisdiction...
Passport
British Foreign Office a passport taken out in one name but to be used in another is an indictable misdemeanour, R. v. Brailsford and McCulloch, (1905) 2 KB 730. Forgery is a misdemeanour under the (English) Official
Peace, Breach of the
so; and may arrest a lunatic about to do a mischief, and may arrest one against whom an indictment has been found; or may arrest one to put a stop to a breach of the peace committed
Peine forte et dure
penance), probably a corrupted abbreviation of prisone, 3 Bl. Com. 325], an old punishment by which a prisoner, indicted for felony, if he refused to plead, was pressed by a heavy weight of iron till he died
Possession is nine points of the law
Fry, speaking of the statute 5 Rich. 2, stat. 1, c. 8, which makes a forcible entry an indictable offence, says: 'This statute creates one of the great differences which exist in our law between the being
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