Infamousness - Law Dictionary Search Results
Repellitur a sacramento infamis
Repellitur a sacramento infamis (Co. Litt. 158a), the oath of an infamous person is not to be received.
Legalis homo
Legalis homo, a person who stands rectus incuria, neither outlawed, excommunicated, nor infamous.
Infamy
Infamy, means (1) Disgraceful repute (2) The loss of reputation or position resulting from a person's being convicted of
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Barnard's Act (English)
repealed by 23 & 24 Vict. c. 38. The Act introduced by Sir John Barnard 'to abolish the infamous practice of stock-jobbing.'
Famosus libellus
Famosus libellus, an infamous libel.
Deprivation
either, first, by sentence declaratory in the proper Court for fit and sufficient causes; such as conviction of infamous crime; for heresy, gross immorality, and the like, or for farming or trading contrary to law, after two
Buggery
of two years' imprisonment may in the discretion of the Court be imposed. And see BLACK MAIL, and INFAMOUS CRIME.
Black mail
Black mail [fr. maille, Fr., a small piece of money], a certain rent of money, coin, or other thing, anciently paid to persons upon or near the borders, who were men of influence and allied with...
Amotion
old law it has been said that offences justifying amotion must either be committed in the official character, infamous, or indictable (Kyd on Corporations); but habitual drunkenness was held a sufficient cause in Reg. v. Taylor, (1694)
high crime
high crime : a crime of infamous nature contrary to public morality but not technically constituting a felony ;specif : an offense that the U.S.
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