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Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure

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Limitation of actions and prosecutions

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Magna Carta

from time to time been necessary and expedient to give to justices and local magistrates jurisdiction to a limited extent in dealing with crimes and quasi criminal matters. This jurisdiction is of two kinds:-(1) Relating to indictable

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Solitary confinement

Solitary confinement. The Criminal Law Consolida-tion Acts of 1861 each frequently provide for sentences of imprisonment 'with or without solit-ary confinement' in … Consolidation Acts have been consequently repealed by Statute Law Revision Acts. Separate confinement that gives a prisoner extremely limited access to other people, esp. the complete isolation of a prisoner, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1399.

Personal interest

200 (All). Personal interest, within the meaning of the s. 556 of the Criminal Procedure Code is not limited to private interest, and it may well include official interest also, Rameshwar Bhartia v. State of Assam, AIR

Breach of trust

he has not benefited by the breach of trust; see LIMITATIONS. A breach of trust was not a criminal offence until 20 & 21 Vict. c. 54. It is now punishable, by the (English) Larceny Act, 1916, … him from liability. Further, the Trustee Act, 1888, s. 8, allows a trustee to plead the Statute of Limitations except incases of fraud or if he has not benefited by the breach of trust; see LIMITATIONS. A

county court

: a court in some states that has a designated jurisdiction usually both civil and criminal within the limits of a county

interrogatory

verdict, special interrogatory NOTE: Interrogatories are widely used as a discovery device in civil procedure and also have limited use in criminal proceedings. An interrogatory may be objected to and does not have to be answered if

municipal court

municipal court : a court that sits in some cities and larger towns and that usually has limited civil and criminal jurisdiction over cases arising within the municipality ;also : police court

habeas corpus

person to habeas corpus relief is not viewed uniformly by the courts. Use of the writ is not limited to criminal matters. It is also available in civil matters, as, for example, to challenge a person's custody

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