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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

Metropolitan Police Magistrates

Metropolitan Police Magistrates. There are 25 salaried Metropolitan Police Magistrates (maximum 27) appointed by the Crown to execute the duties of justices of the peace within the Metropolitan Police District. The qualification for this office is...

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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

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.

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

Mute of malice

Mute of malice, used of one who abstains from pleading to an indictment when he is able to do so. See PEINE FORTE ET DURE.

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

Nuisance

A public nuisance may give rise to proceedings of different kinds:- (1) It may give ground for an indictment by a private individual, or a criminal information at the suit of the Attorney-General. (2) It may give

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