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Coverture
2 C&K 903]; but the presumption maybe rebutted [Reg. v. Torpey, (1871) 12 Cox CC 45]. The Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (c. 86), s. 47, abolishes this presumption of coercion by the husband, but on a charge
Commitment
R.S.C. Ord. XLIV.; and (2) the sending to prison, pending his trial at Assizes or Quarte, Sessions, by justices of the peace, under the (English) Indictable Offences Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 42), of a
Commissioners for Oaths
The (English) Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1891, allows persons to take oaths before commissioners for oaths instead of justices of the peace, in matters arising under the (English) Pawnbrokers Act, 1872, and other Acts therein mentioned.
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Cinque Ports
Warden of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle, in or in relation to the administration of justice in actions, suits, or other civil proceedings at law or in equity, but with a saving (s. 10)
Clerk of the peace
are to officiate at sessions of the peace, to prepare indictments, and to record the proceedings of the justices, and to perform a number of special duties in connection with the affairs of the county. He is
Circuits
vacations after Hilary and Trinity terms, but more recently oftener, and at no precisely fixed periods, to administer justice in the several counties. Two judges, until 1884, attended at each circuit town, when by a new scheme
City
corporate, which has usually a bishop and cathedral church. It is called civitas, because it is governed by justice and order of magistracy; oppidum, for that it contains a great number of inhabitants; and urbs, because it
Civil proceeding
imposed; that the claimants were therefore entitled, to defend themselves through publicly funded legal Assistance; and that the justices had therefore erred in law in deciding that they had no jurisdiction to grant representation order because the
Civil service of the State
include the 'officers and servants of the High Court' as well as members of the Subordinate Judiciary, Chief Justice of Andra Pradesh v. L.V.A Dikshutulu, AIR 1979 SC 193 (205). [Constitution of India, Art. 371D, clause (3)]
Civilization
Civilization, a law, act of justice, or judgment, which renders a criminal process civil; which is performed by turning an information into an inquest,
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