Inquest - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: inquestArrest of inquest
Arrest of inquest, pleading in arrest of taking the inquest upon a former issue, and showing cause why an inquest should not be taken, Bro. Ab., tit. 'Repleader.'Means a plea that a matter proposed for inquiry has already been investigated and should therefore not be re-examined, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 105....
inquest
inquest [Anglo-French enqueste, from Old French, ultimately from Latin inquirere to ask about, from in- within, into + quaerere to seek] 1 : a judicial or official inquiry or examination often before a jury [a coroner's ] compare trial 2 : a body of people (as a jury) assembled to hold a judicial or official inquiry ;also : the finding of such an inquiry or the document recording it ...
Inquest
Inquest, judicial inquiry....
Inquest of Office
Inquest of Office, an inquiry made by the king's officer, his sheriff, coroner, or escheat or, virtute officii, or by writ sent to them for that purpose, or by commissioners specially appointed, concerning any matter that entitles the king to the possession of lands or tenements, goods or chattels. See Hubback on Succession, p. 80; and ESCHEATS....
Inquest, Coroner's
Inquest, Coroner's. see CORONER....
Ad melius inquirendum
Ad melius inquirendum. A writ directed to a coroner commanding him to hold a second inquest. See Reg. v. Carter, (1876) 45 LJ QB 711, in which the defendant coroner was directed on a second view, by exhumation, of the body, to hold a second inquest (two months after the first), in a case of death by poison, and (English) Coroners Act,1887, s. 6, sub-s. 1, by which the High Court may direct another inquest where necessary or desirable by reason of fraud, rejection of evidence, irregularity of proceedings, etc., sub-s. (3) dispensing with the necessity, 'unless the Court otherwise order,' of a view of the body. See also (English) Coroners (Amendment) Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 59), s. 19....
Coroner
Coroner. A very ancient officer at the Common Law, so called because he has principally to do with pleas of the Crown, appointed in boroughs by the Borough Council under ss. 171-174 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, and in counties by the County Council, under s. 5 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888, prior to which Act county coroners were elected by the freeholders in each county.An early definition of his duties was provided by the statute 'De Officio Coronatoris,' 4 Edw. 1, repealed by the consolidating (English) Coroners Act, 1887, which codifies the law as follows:--Where a coroner is informed that the dead body of a person is lying within his jurisdiction, and there is reasonable cause to suspect that such person has died either a violent or an unnatural death, or has died a sudden death of which the cause is unknown, or that such person has dies in prison, or in such place or under such circumstances as to require an inquest in pursuance of any Act, the...
Continuance or possible recurrence of which is pre-judicial to the health or safety of the public
Continuance or possible recurrence of which is pre-judicial to the health or safety of the public, If it appears to a coroner, either before he proceeds to hold an inquest or in the course of an inquest begun without a jury, that there is a reason to suspect....(d) that the death occurred in circum-stances the continuance or possible recurrence of which is pre judicial to the health or safety of the public or any section or the public, he shall proceed to summon a jury in the manner required by sub-s. (2), R (Takoushis) v. Inner North London Coroner (CA), (2006) 1 WLR 461 [Coroners Act, 1988 (C 13), s. 8(3)(d)]...
Cremation
Cremation, the disposal of a dead body by burning instead of by burial. This is not illegal, unless it be done so as to cause a nuisance, or with the intention of preventing a coroner's inquest, Rg. V. Price, (1884) 12 QBD 247. But it is the duty of executors to bury the body of their testator, although the will may direct some other person to cause it to be burnt, Williams v. Williams, (1882) 20 Ch D 659. If burial in consecrated ground and cremation are both desired, cremation should precede and not follow burial, and the Burial Service maybe read in connection with the burial of the ashes; see Re Dixon, 1892 p. 394, where an applicationto exhume, after 18 years' burial, for the purpose of cremation, was refused. The (English) Cremation Act, 1902 (3 Edw. 7, c. 8), empowers burial authorities (see BURIAL) to establish crematoria on plans approved by the Minister of Health and certified to be in accordance therewith by the Secretary of State, but no crematorium may be nearer than 200 y...
Escheator
Escheator [fr. escaetor, Lat.], an officer anciently appointed by the lord treasurer, etc., in every county, to make inquests of titles by escheat, which inquests were to be taken by good and lawful men of the county, impannelled by the sheriff, 4 Inst. 225. See ESCHEAT.A royal officer appointed to assess the value of property escheating to crown, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 564....
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