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Assize, or assise
the assizes. Hence the judicial assemblies, held by the king's commission in every county as well to take indictments as to try causes at Nisi Prius, are commonly termed the assizes. There are two commissions. (I.) General,
Ex dolo malo non oritur actio
341; 1 Sm. L.C., where it has held that a bond given to induce the prosecutor of an indictment for perjury to withhold his evidence could not be recovered upon. Consult Broom's Leg. Max.
variance
1 : a disagreement between two documents or positions ;esp : a disagreement between allegations (as in an indictment or complaint) and proof offered at trial that warrants an appropriate remedy (as a directed verdict or an
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plea bargain
pleading guilty to a lesser offense or to only one or some of the counts in a multi-count indictment in return for a lighter sentence than the defendant would have received if convicted of the more serious
plead
denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts [the defendant shall be given a copy of the indictment or information before the defendant is called upon to "Kansas Statutes Annotated"] see also alternative 2 : to
presentment
the initiative of the jury members or on the basis of their own knowledge without a bill of indictment laid before them 2 : the act of producing or offering at the proper place and time a
proceeding
: a civil or criminal proceeding in the nature of a trial that is conducted without formalities (as indictment, pleadings, and usually a jury) for the speedy and peremptory disposition of a matter supplementary proceeding : a
quashal
quashal : an act of quashing something [opposed the of the indictment]
substantive crime
substantive crime : a crime that does not have as an element the performance of some other crime : a crime that is not dependent on another [indicted and convicted of conspiracy to attempt to enter...
traverse
transversare to cross, from Latin transversus lying across] : to deny (as an allegation of fact or an indictment) in a legal proceeding
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