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Indiction, cycle of, a mode of computing time by the space of fifteen years, instituted by Constantine the Great; originally the period for the payment of certain taxes. Some of the charters of King Edgar and Henry III. Are dated by indictions, Jac. Law Dict....
Indicto
Indicto, means (1) An imperial proclamation establishing a 15-year period for the reassessment of property values for tax purposes. Indictio also referred to the 15-year cycle itself. (2) A declaration or proclamation, such as a declaration of war. (3) An indictment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 776....
Offence
Offence, crime; act of wickedness. It is used as a genus, comprehending every crime and misde-meanour, or as a species, signifying a crime not indictable, but punishable summarily, or by the forfeiture of a penalty.There are certain acts which are heinous sins and odious in the public eye and are punishable in the Ecclesiastical Courts, but not being punishable at Common Law, and the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts being held to be prosalute anim' and not to entail any temporal injury, they cannot be classed with ordinary Common Law and statutory offences; and it is no slander to impute them unless special damage follows.Other offences are divided into three classes, viz.:-(1) Treasons; (2) Felonies; and (3) Misdemeanours. See several titles.Consult Russell on Crimes; Archbolds' or Roscoe's Criminal Evidence.It means any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force and includes any act in respect of which a complaint may be made under s. 20 of the Cat...
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