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Emplead

Emplead, to indict; to prefer a charge against; to accuse.

Deodand

and was killed the thing was certainly forfeited. In all indictments for homicide, the instrument of death and the value were

Lancaster

justices of assize within the county, and all processes and indictments to be in his name. It is later vested in

Disorderly houses

1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), by which prosecutions by indictment of persons keeping 'bawdy houses, gaming houses, and other disorderly

Disrationare, or dirationare

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.

Due

one hand express the mere fact, or the state, of indictment, as an equivalent simply of 'owing' or on the other

Ex dolo malo non oritur actio

that a bond given to induce the prosecutor of an indictment for perjury to withhold his evidence could not be recovered

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

Amend-ment Act, 1867, s. 10, as to bringing up persons indicted, and who are in gaol for some other offence. The

Fees

recover the excess, and it has been suggested that an indictment would lie for extortion colore officii. The fees of the

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