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VerbarFasces
A bundle of rods having among them an ax with the blade projecting borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority
Praeligtexta
about the completion of his fourteenth year and by girls until their marriage It was also worn by magistrates and priests
Civil Law
Latin translations of the Novels. The Novels are quoted by their respective numbers. They are directed either to magistrates, bishops, or citizens of Constantinople, and were of equal force and authority for those private persons to whom
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Accused, statement of
the rules made under the Act; and shall be read over to the accused and signed by the magistrates, and by the accused if he desires it. See further ADMISSION; CONFESSION.
Badger
place, and carries them to another to sell and make profit by them. 5 Eliz. C. 12 empowered magistrates to license badgers for one year, upon their entering into certain recognizances. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 24
Bill of indictment
or by direction of the court of appeal, or where a person is committed for trial by examining Magistrates. In re Practice Direction, (1990) 1 WLR 1633; R. v. Raymond, (1981) 2 ER 246.
Burgessess
burgeois, O. fr.; birgensis, Lat.], generally the inhabitants of a borough or walled town; sometimes restricted to the magistrates, etc., of corporate towns, and sometimes to the representatives of a borough in the Commons House of Parliament;
Certiorari
King's bench, is the sovereign Court of justice in criminal causes, all indictments, coroners' inquisitions, summary convictions by magistrates, orders of removal of paupers, and of poor's rates, also orders made by commissioners of sewers and other
Chancellor, Lord
in a statement to members of the House of Commons who has called attention to the appointment of Magistrates, which statement is reproduced in the Law Times of 17th November, 1906, from The Times of the 16th
Civil
not preclude it from finding that a provision was, in effect, criminal in nature, R. (Mudie) v. Dover Magistrates' Ct (CA), 2003 2 WLR 1344.
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