Malicious Prosecution - Law Dictionary Search Results
Trustees, Fraudulent, Punishment of
is punishable by penal servitude for seven years, but the sanction of the Attorney-General is necessary for a prosecution by a person other than one who has taken civil proceedings against the trustee and has obtained the
Treasury solicitor
Solicitor Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 18). The Treasury Solicitor is no longer Director of Public Prosecutions: see (English) Prosecution of Offences Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 3).
Sunday
may be dated on Sunday; but Sunday is a 'non-business' day [s. 92 (a)]. By the Sunday Observation Prosecution Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 87)--a temporary Act, continued from time to time by successive 'Expiring
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Special pleas
the merits of the indictment, and give a reason why the prisoner ought to be discharged from the prosecution: they are of four kinds, viz., a former acquittal, a former conviction, a former attainder, or a pardon
Self-incrimination
1962 Punj 101. Means the act of indicating one's own involvement in a crime or exposing oneself to prosecution, especially by making a statement, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1364. Self-incrimination, no person accused of any
Rape
complaint of the woman shortly after the occurrence, and its particulars, may be given in evidence for the prosecution, not as evidence of the facts complained of (see HEARSAY EVIDENCE), but of the consistency of the conduct
Office of a judge
prosecutor in an ecclesiastical criminal suit is called the promotor officii judicis. He is either necessarius when the prosecution is ex mero motu judicis, or voluntarius, Oughton, Ordo Judicio-rum.
Quaerens non invenit plegium
find a pledge. A sheriff's return to a writ requiring him to take security from the plaintiff for prosecution of the plaintiff's claim, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1253. --(the plaintiff has not found pledge) (the
Prosecuted
Prosecuted, is comprehensive enough to take in a prosecution before an authority other than a Magisterial or a Criminal Court, Thomas Dana v. State of Punjab, AIR
Prevarication
Prevarication, a collusion between an informer and a defendant, in order to a feigned prosecution. Also, any secret abuse committed in a public office or private commission; also, the wilful concealment or misrepresentation
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