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Commitment
to prison, pending his trial at Assizes or Quarte, Sessions, by justices of the peace, under the (English) Indictable Offences Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 42), of a person charged with an indictable offence, in
Bill in criminal cases
2 of the Act provides for the new procedure. Until this Act was passed the bill was an indictment of a crime or misdemeanour preferred to a grand jury; evidence in support of it was adduced; if
King's Bench
from high treason down to the most trivial misdemeanour or breach of the peace, and into it also indictments from all inferior Courts might be removed by writ of certiorari. See CERTIORARI; HABEAS CORPUS; MANDAMUS; QUO WARRANTO.
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Infectious diseases
Infectious diseases. It is an indictable offence to expose in a public frequented highway a person suffering from an infectious disorder, R. v. Vantandillo,
Innuendo
Innuendo [fr. innuo, Lat., to nod], a word used in statements of claim, indictments, and other pleadings, to ascertain a person or thing named before, or to connect an expression with a
Jesuits
Act, 1829 (10 Geo. 4, c. 7), by ss. 28-37, rendered Jesuits liable to banishment on conviction on indictment from the United Kingdom, and an attempt was made in 1902 to enforce the Act. See Law Journal
Jury
is instructed in the Articles of their inquiry by the presiding judge. They sit in private, and receive indictments inquiring, upon their oaths, whether there be sufficient cause shown by the evidence of the prosecution to call
Justices
offence. (3) To act, if county justices, as judges at Quarter Sessions, where their chairman presides and tries indictments with a jury, and such justices as attend the Quarter Sessions sit as a Court of Appeal from
Juvenile offenders
to sending to approved schools. With regard to the summary trial of children and young persons for certain indictable offences, see the Third Schedule of the Act and s. 11 of the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879
Magna Carta
limited extent in dealing with crimes and quasi criminal matters. This jurisdiction is of two kinds:-(1) Relating to indictable offences; and (2) relating to offence punishable summarily. As to the latter jurisdiction, the proceedings and powers of
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