Interregnum - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: interregnumIn Anglia non est interregnum
In Anglia non est interregnum. Jenk.Cent. 205.-(In England there is no interregnum.)...
Interregnum
Interregnum, the time during which a throne is vacant in elective kingdoms; for in such as are hereditary, as in England, there can be no interregnum, the sovereign in his artificial capacity never dying....
Indictment
Indictment [fr. indico, Lat., to show], a written accusation against one or more persons of a crime formerly preferred to and presented upon oath by a grand jury. Grand juries were partly abolished by the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Pro-visions) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 36). The bill of indictment is now preferred by any person before a court in which a person charged may lawfully be indicted, and the proper officer shall, if the requirements have been complied with, sign the bill and it shall thereupon become an indictment. But bills of indictment may be preferred before grand juries of the Counties of London and Middlesex by virtue of certain enactments set out in the 1st Schedule (high treason and certain other offences tribal in the King's Bench Division). Indictments were of a highly technical character until simplified by the Indictments Act, 1915, which directs that the particulars of the offence shall be 'set out in ordinary language.' See also Indictments Pro...
Interregency
An interregnum...
Interregent
A person who discharges the royal functions during an interregnum...
Interreign
An interregnum...
Interregnal
Interregnal, those (that) which occupy an interregnum i.e., a brief interval or break for an otherwise continuous event. 'Shri Bhandare has pressed the lachrymous case of several hundreds of 'interregnal' employees whose removal from service, on re-instatement of the old might spell inequality.' [LIC of India v. D.J. Bahadur, AIR 1980 SC 2181, para 10]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Zero hour
Zero hour, is usually a noisy interregnum between the question hour and the beginning of the rest of the day's business in a legislature; member raise often without notice, various matters during this period, Dictionary of Constitutional and Parliamentary Terms, Lok Sabha Secretariat, 2005, p. 491....
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