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Lancaster
etc., and make justices of the peace and justices of assize within the county, and all processes and indictments to be in his name. It is later vested in the Crown. It has a separate Chancery Court,
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 43), and there are many other statutory limitations on prosecutions of indictable offences (see Archbold's Cr. Pl.), and there is no period of limitation for proceedings to claim a peerage
Mainour
in the hands of a thief. At common law, the thief could be arraigned and tried without an indictment. Also spelled manour; meinour. Also termed mannopus; manuopus, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 964
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Maintenance
concerns one, by assisting either party with money or otherwise to prosecute or defend it; both actionable and indictable [see Bradlaugh v. Newdegate, (1883) 11 QBD 1], and invalidates contracts involving it. By the Roman Law it
Manner or mainour
is, in flagrante delicto. In such a case he might be brought into Court, arraigned and tried, without indictment, 4 Bl. Com. 308.
Indictor
Indictor, he who indicts another for an offence.
Manslaughter
Vict. c. 100), s. 5. On the principle that any greater felony includes a less felony, a person indicted for murder may be convicted of manslaughter. See Steph. Dig., art. 272. See MURDER. A high degree of
Marshal or Mareschal
continuance of the circuit). tHe Office is now practically a sinecure, but formerly the marshal made abstracts of indictments, and received records for trials, etc. The judge appoints his marshal and pays his travelling and other expenses
Indigent defendant
Indigent defendant, means a person who is too poor to hire a lawyer and who, upon indictment, becomes eligible to receive aid from a court appointed attorney and a waiver of court costs, Black's Law
Ignore
Ignore, to throw out a bill of indictment. Ignore, means to refuse to notice, recognise, or consider. To reject as groundless, to no bill, Black's Law
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