Malicious Prosecution - Law Dictionary Search Results
Fugitive
A person who flees or escape; a refuge 2. A criminal suspects who flees evades, or escapes arrest prosecution, or imprisonment, esp. by fleeing jurisdiction or by hiding, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 680.
Frenum
Frenum, a composition anciently paid by a criminal to be freed from prosecution, of which the third part was lodged in the Exchequer. See Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 1. 30, c.
Drunkenness
in any certified inebriate reformatory the managers of which are willing to receive him. The expenses of a prosecution are by an (English) Act of 1899 payable out of the local rates; but an habitual drunkard cannot
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Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 1885 to 1928 (English)
twenty-three yeas and six months can avail himself of this defence).] See AGE. The time within which a prosecution can be commenced under s. 5 of the Act of 1885 is extended to twelve months (s. 2)
Defence struck off or defence struck out
inspection of documents, he shall, if a plaintiff, be liable to have his suit dismissed for want of prosecution, and, if a defendant, to have his defences, if any, struck out, and to be placed in the
Crown Solicitor
attached to each circuit, whose duty it was to get up every case for the Crown in criminal prosecutions. They were paid by salaries. In Scotland the still better plan exists of a Crown prosecutor (called the
Complainant
Complainant, one who urges a suit or commences a prosecution against another.
Common Intention, common object
the Indian Penal Code speaks of an offence being committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, Devilal v. State of Rajasthan, (1971) 3 SCC 471: AIR 1971
Civil remedy
Civil remedy, one open to a private person as opposed to a criminal prosecution.
Change in law of procedure
of Procedure-No person has a vested right in any course of procedure. He has only the right of prosecution or defence in the manner prescribed for the time being by or for the Court in which the
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