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Demurrer

allowed to be true, but the defendant takes exception in point of law to the sufficient of the indictment or information on the face of it, as if he insist that the fact as stated is no

whose duty it is to do so is punishable by the temporal courts, independently of spiritual censures, on indictment or information. There is no property in a dead body, Williams v. Williams, (1882) 20 Ch D 659.

Deodand

motion, whereas if an adult person fell thence and was killed the thing was certainly forfeited. In all indictments for homicide, the instrument of death and the value were presented and found by the grand jury (as

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Deposition

deposition in criminal proceedings (in connec-tion with which the term is most commonly used), see especially the (English) Indictable Offences Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 42), s. 17, and the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act,

Disorderly houses

commission of crime. See (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), by which prosecutions by indictment of persons keeping 'bawdy houses, gaming houses, and other disorderly houses' for the Common Law misdemeanour of keeping

Disrationare, or dirationare

Disrationare, or dirationare, to justify; to clear one's self of a fault; to traverse an indictment, to disprove, Encyc. Londin.

Dittay

Dittay, the matter of charge or ground of indictment against a person accused of crime, Scots term.

Dog stealing

labour, or fine not exceeding 20l. beyond the value of the dog. A second offence is, however, an indictable misdemeanour, punishable by imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding eighteen months. Similar punishment is provided for

Due

Kalliyanikutty, (1999) 3 SCC 657. May, on the one hand express the mere fact, or the state, of indictment, as an equivalent simply of 'owing' or on the other hand, it may refer to the time of

Count

of action, were called the 'counts' of the declaration. Used also to signify the several parts of an indictment, each charging a distinct offence.

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