Inquest - Law Dictionary Search Results
Questa
Questa, means a quest; an inquest or inquiry upon the oaths of an impanelled jury, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259.
Proprietate proband', de
Proprietate proband', de, a writ addressed to a sheriff to try by an inquest in whom certain property, previous to distress, subsisted, Finch L. 316.
Medical witnesses
Medical witnesses, may be ordered to attend at an inquest by the coroner under the (English) Coroners Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 71), s. 21. The
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Kirby's Quest
Kirby's Quest, an ancient record remaining with the remembrancer of the Exchequer, so called from its being the inquest of John de Kirby, treasurer to King Edward I, Jac. Law Dict.
Inquisitio post mortem
Inquisitio post mortem (inquest after death). This was an inquisition taken after the death of a tenant in capite (a class comprising at one time almost all the men of property in the kingdom) in which...
Inquirable
Capable of being inquired into subject or liable to inquisition or inquest
Felo de se
for felony is abolished by the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23). A coroner's inquest (see CORONER) must beheld in every case of suicide, and in the absence of evidence of unsoundness of
Extent
vacation (5 & 6 Vict. c. 86, s. 8). It directs the sheriff to take an inquisition or inquest of office, on the oaths of lawful men, to ascertain the lands, etc., of the debtor, and seize
Distringas
still continued obstinate, then (if the judgment had been by default or on demurrer) the sheriff summoned an inquest to ascertain the value of the goods and the plaintiff's damages, which (being either so assessed, or by
Compertorium
Compertorium, a judicial inquest in the Civil Law, made by delegates or commissioners to find out and relate the truth of a
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