Judging - Law Dictionary Search Results
Justices
Justices, officers deputed by the Crown to ad-minister justice and do right by way of judgment. The judges of the Supreme Court are called justices, but the word is usually applied to petty magistrates
Inspection of written documents
& 15 Vict. c. 99), s. 6, that in any action or other proceeding the court or a judge might, on application by either party, compel the opposite party to allow the party making the application to
Summons
of the High Court to which it is intended that the action should be assigned. See also SUMMARY JUDGMENT. 2. To Judges' or Masters' Chambers.--The means by which one party brings the other before a judge (or
Keep your definitions linked to case research
De jure judices de facto juratores respondent
De jure judices de facto juratores respondent. (The judges answer to the law, the jury to the fact.) A fundamental rule of the Common Law, upon which
Common Law
it is now recorded in the voluminous series of our law reports which embody the decisions of our judges together with the reasons which they assigned for their decisions.'--Odgers on the Common Law, p. 59. The distinction
Cognizance
Cognizance (Judicial), knowledge upon which a judge is bound to act without having it proved in evidence: as the public statutes of the realm, the
Central Criminal Court
any of the offences aforesaid. The Court consists of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and also of the Judges; and there are twelve sessions held in every year, at times fixed by four or more of the
Bill of exceptions
Bill of exceptions. Prior to the Judicature Acts, if a judge, at the trial of a cause at Nisi Prius, mistook the law, either in directing a judgment of
Arches, Court of
Court of [fr. curia de arcubus, Lat.], a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the judge of which is called the Dean of the Arches, because his Court was anciently held in the church
arraign
a-, prefix stressing goal of an action + raisnier to speak] : to bring (a defendant) before a judge or magistrate to hear the charges and to plead usually either guilty or not guilty compare indict NOTE:
- ‹ Prev
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- Next ›
- Last »
Try the research workspace - 7 days free