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Rabbit
or more unlawfully entering land for the purpose of destroying game or rabbits are punishable after conviction on indictment by penal servitude up to ten years or imprisonment with hard labour up to three years. A tenant
Preventive detention
(English) Prevention of Crime Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 59), s. 10, as amended by the (English) Indictments Act, 1915 (5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 90), a person after three previous convictions after attaining sixteen
Privilege
freedom from arrest and seizures, under process from the courts of justice; this, however, does not extend to indictable offences, to actual contempts of the courts of justice, or to proceedings in bank-ruptcy. Members of Parliament are
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Prizefighting
Prizefighting. Public prizefighting is an affray and an indictable misdemeanour on the part of both combatants and backers (see Rg. v. Coney, (1882) 8 QBD 534, in
Public Order Act, 1936
a maximum of 6 months' imprisonment or a fine up to 100l. or both; and on conviction on indictment to a maximum of 2 years or 500l. or both. For any other offence, on summary conviction, imprisonment
Public prosecutor
every police district becomes bound to give information from time to time to such Director with respect to indictable offences alleged to have been committed within his district. Public purpose, acquisition of land for connecting two temples
Public right
statute in either case if the statute does not provide a remedy; the remedy for infringement is by indictment or information filed by the Attorney-General either directly or upon the relation of an individual (relator) who becomes
Quarter Sessions
borough, having a separate Court of quarter sessions, four times in each year, or oftener, to try certain indictable offences, and hear appeals from petty sessions. The holding of quarter sessions can be dispensed with or the
Quash
Quash [cassum facere, Lat.; casser, Fr.], to overthrow or annul-Bracton; as to quash an indictment, or order of justices, or a poor-rate. See CERTIORARI.
Fees
have brought an action on the case to recover the excess, and it has been suggested that an indictment would lie for extortion colore officii. The fees of the steward of a manor who is a solicitor,
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