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bill
bill of interpleader in this entry b : a device or instrument used in criminal procedure bill of indictment : an instrument that contains the charges against a defendant and that is presented to a grand jury
High Steward, Court of the Lord
High Steward, Court of the Lord, a tribunal instituted for the trial of peers or peeresses indicted for treason or felony, or for misprision of either, but not for any other offence. The office of
Autrefois acquit
Autrefois acquit (formerly acquitted), a plea in criminal cases; when a person is indicted for an offence and acquitted, he cannot be afterwards indicted for the same offence, provided the first indictment
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Contra formam statuti
contrary to the form of the statute [in such case made and provided]. The usual conclusion of every indictment, etc., brought for an offence created by statute prior to the Indictments Act, 1915. The (English) Criminal Procedure
Arraign
bring a prisoner to the bar of the Court to answer the matter charged upon him in the indictment. The arraignment of a prisoner consists of calling upon him by name, reading to him the indictment, demanding
Costs
The following courts namely,-- (a) a court of assize or a court of quarter sessions before which any indictable offence is prosecuted or tried, and (b) a court of summary jurisdiction by which an indictable offence is
Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English)
46). The right of appeal is contained ins. 3, which is as follows:-- 3. A person convicted on indictment may appeal under this Act to the Court of Criminal Appeal-- (a) against his conviction onany ground of
Misdemeanour
Law. 'In the present state of our law we can only define a misdemeanour by saying that every indictable offence which is neither treason nor felony is a misdemeanour' (Odgers on the Common Law, p. 130). Similarly
Nemo debet bis vexari, si constat curi' quod sit pro una et eadem causa
2 Selw. N.P. 763. It is also well established in the criminal law, that when a man is indicted for an offence, and acquitted, he cannot afterwards be indicted for the same offence, provided the first indictment
Sessions of the peace
and 34 Edw. 3, c. 1. The two main jurisdictions are (1) to try, with a jury, for indictable offences not excepted by the Act of 1842 as below, and (2) to hear appeals from petty or
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