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Inquisitio post mortem
Inquisitio post mortem (inquest after death). This was an inquisition taken after the death of a tenant in capite
Presentment
Presentment, a very comprehensive term, including not only presentments properly so called, but also inquisitions of office, and indictments by a grand jury; properly speaking, the notice taken by a grand jury of
Judicial documents
documents, proceedings relating to litiga-tion. They are divided into: (1) judgments, decrees, and verdicts; (2) depositions, examinations, and inquisitions taken in the course of a legal process; (3) writs, warrants, pleadings, etc., which are incident to any
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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
Magna Carta
is of measures.' See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. The 26th, 27th, and 28th chapters, relating to the writ of inquisition of life and member, and the old feudal tenures and wager of law, have been superseded by their
Odio et atia
murder were committed on just cause of suspicion, or only upon malice and ill-will; and if, upon the inquisition, it was found that he was not guilty, then there issued another writ to the sheriff to bail
Parchment
to repeal of provision in Coroners Act, 1887, which maintained the use of parchment in the case of inquisitions by coroners of murder and manslaughter till 1916, see Indictments Act, 1915, Sch. II. Indictments may be on
Record
three kinds of records, viz.: (1) judicial, as an attainder; (2) ministerial, on oath, being an office or inquisition found; (3) by way of conveyance, as a deed enrolled. As to ancient public records generally, see Hubback
Reception order
No person, not being a a rate-aided poor person or a person of unsound mind so found by inquisition, can be received or detained as a per-son of unsound mind except under the authority of (1) a
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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