Inquisition - Law Dictionary Search Results

Investigate

mentally to search into to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy to find out by careful inquisition as to investigate the causes of natural phenomena

Lunatic

Act, 1893, s. 2]. As to deeds and wills executed by a person found of unsound mind by inquisition, see In re Walker, (1905) 1 Ch 160. As to their liability for tortious acts, see Clerk and

2, of the (English) Coroners Act, 1887, coroners may admit to bail persons charged with manslaughter upon an inquisition before them, and by the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 227, a borough constable may admit to

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Bow-bearer

Bow-bearer, an under-officer of the forest whose duty it was to oversee and true inquisition make, as well of sworn men as unsworn, in every bailiwick of the forest; and of all manner

Sephardic

Jews the Sephardim also called Spanish or Portuguese Jews descended from Jewish families driven from Spain by the Inquisition

De lunatico inquirendo, writ

the Judge in Lunacy under s. 90 of the (English) Lunacy Act, 1890, who either may direct an inquisition with or without a jury, or that an issue be tried before a judge of the High Court

Escheccum

Escheccum, a jury or inquisition, Mat. Par. Anno. 1240.

Fugam fecit

Fugam fecit (he has made flight), said of a person who is found by inquisition to have fled for felony, etc., upon which forfeiture of goods took place. Obsolete, 7 & 8 Geo.

Inquiry

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.

Inquiry, writ of

by the oath of twelve men of his county, he diligently inquire into the same, and return the inquisition into court. The writ is necessary after an interlocutory judgment, the defendant having let judgment go by default,

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