Inquiring

Given to inquiry disposed to investigate causes curious as an inquiring mind...

Inquirable

Capable of being inquired into subject or liable to inquisition or inquest...

To inquire

To inquire, is 'to ask, to seek', Chambers 20th Century Dictionary; Real Value Appliances Ltd. v. Canara Bank, (1998) 5 SCC 554....

Commission to inquire of faults against the law

Commission to inquire of faults against the law, anciently set forth an extraordinary occasions and corruptions....

Inquirer

One who inquires or examines questioner investigator...

Inquisitor, any officer, as a sheriff coroner, etc., having power to inquire into certain matters.Means (1) An officer who examines and inquires, such as a coroner of sheriff (2) A person who in-quires; esp., one who examines another in a harsh or hostile manner (3) An officer authorised to inquire into heresies; esp., an officer of the Spanish Inquisition, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 796...

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in each county.An early definition of his duties was provided by the statute 'De Officio Coronatoris,' 4 Edw. 1, repealed by the consolidating (English) Coroners Act, 1887, which codifies the law as follows:--Where a coroner is informed that the dead body of a person is lying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...

Treasure-trove

Treasure-trove [thesaurus inventus Lat.], money or coin, gold, silver plate, or bullion found hidden in the earth or other private place, the owner thereof being unknown or unfound, in which case it belongs to the Crown: see Jervis on Coroners, p. 2. Bracton defines it, vetus depositio pecuni'. Concealing treasure-trove is punishable by fine or imprisonment.Coroners have jurisdiction to inquire of treasure-trove, under s. 36 of the Coroners Act, 1887, as theretofore, but not to inquire into any question of title as between the Crown and any other claimant, Attorney General v. Moore, (1893) 1 Ch 676.As to the Roman law on this subject, see Sand. Just....

Qu'stio

Qu'stio, a commission to inquire into a criminal matter, Civ. Law.Means 'to inquire'. A special committee appointed to hear one or more criminal cases, sometimes with the power to try all cases of a given class arising within a specified period, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1253....

Qu' plura

Qu' plura, a writ which lay where an inquisition had been taken by an escheator of lands, etc., of which a man died seised, and all the land was supposed not to be found by the office or inquisition; it was to inquire of what more lands or tenements the party died seised, Reg. Brev. 293. Rendered useless by 12 Car. 2, c. 24.Means a writ ordering the escheator, when it appeared that not all of a decedent's property had been located, to inquire about any additional lands and tenements the decedent held at the time of death, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1253....

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