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Fed. R. App. P.

Fed. R. App. P. Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure ...

Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, originally two persons having held high judicial office, or practised at the bar for not less than fifteen years, appointed, with a salary of 6,000l. a year, to aid the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the hearing of appeals (App. Jur. Act, 1876, s. 6). On the death or resignation of any two members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council the Crown was empowered to appoint a third and fourth Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (ibid., s. 14), and may now appoint two more in addition to the four (App. Jur. Act, 1913, s. 1), and a further one in addition to the six (App. Jur. Act, 1929, s. 2). Any Lord of Appeal in Ordinary who at the date of his appointment would have been qualified to the appointed an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal, or at that date was a judge of that Court, is an ex-officio judge of the Court of Appeal (Jud. Act, 1925, s. 6 (2)). Lords of Appeal in Ordinary rank as barons for life and sit and vote in t...

Scotland and Ireland

Scotland and Ireland. As to service of writ, by leave of judge, upon a defendant resident in Scotland or Ireland, see (English) R.S.C. Ord. XI., rr. 1 (e), 2 and 2A; Williams v. Cartwright, (1895) 1 QB 142. Process for compelling the attendance of witnesses from Scotland or Ireland before English Courts and vice versa may be issued under 17 & 18 Vict. c. 34. Appeals from courts in Scotland and Northern Ireland are heard by the House of Lords under s. 3 of the App. Jur. Act, 1876: see also Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1922 (Session 2), Sch. I., 6 (3); but appeals from the Supreme Court of the Irish Free State are to the Privy Council. [see Irish Free State Constitution Act, 1922 (Session 2), Sch. I., Art. 66]The removal of Scottish and Irish poor from England to Scotland or Ireland is regulated by 8 & 9 Vict. c. 117, 10 & 11 Vict. c. 33 (Scotland); 24 & 25 Vict. c. 76 (Ireland); 25 & 26 Vict. c. 113, and 26 & 27 Vict. c. 89 (Ireland); but irremovability to Ireland is...

matricide

matricide [Latin matricidium, from matr- mater mother + -cidium killing] 1 : the murder of a mother by her son or daughter 2 Latin matricida, from matr- + -cida killer : a person who murders his or her mother ...

parricide

parricide [Latin parricida killer of a close relative] 1 : a person who murders his or her mother or father or sometimes a close relative 2 : the act of a parricide ...

patricide

patricide [Latin patricida, from patr- pater father + -cida killer] 1 : an individual who murders his or her father 2 : the murder of an individual's own father ...

Son of Sam law

Son of Sam law [after Son of Sam, pseudonym of serial killer David Berkowitz, whose profits from the sale of his story a 1977 New York statute attempted to divert to his victims] : a law preventing criminals from profiting from media depictions (as in books or films) of their crimes ...

Killer

One who deprives of life one who or that which kills...

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