Inquest - Law Dictionary Search Results
Office found
Office found, the finding of a jury in an inquest of office of a fact which entitles the Crown to the possession of lands of tenements, goods, or
Super visum corporis
Super visum corporis [Lat.] (upon view of the body). A coroner's inquest must generally be so held; but the Coroners Act, 1887, allows a view to be dispensed with on
Cremation
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
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the sovereign's residence), where only one of the parties was in the royal service (in which case the inquest was taken by a jury of the country); and if all debts, contracts, and covenants where both of
Coroner
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 coroner, whether the cause of death arose within his jurisdiction or not,
Continuance or possible recurrence of which is pre-judicial to the health or safety of the public
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)
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,
Inquiry
connotes act of seeking truth, information or knowledge about something. It is although synonymous with inquisition/investigation, probe or inquest, yet it acquires a definite meaning in the context in which it is used, K.C. Malhotra v. Chancellor,
Wardmote
Wardmote, a Court held in every ward in London. The wardmote inquest has power to inquire into and present all defaults concerning the watch and police doing their duty, to
Sheriff (in Scotland)
to all possessory actions, as removings, spuilzies, etc., to all brieves issuing from Chancery in Scotland, as of inquest, terce, division, tutory, etc., and generally to all civil matters not specially committed to other courts. He has
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