Malicious Prosecution - Law Dictionary Search Results
Legal proceedings
given; includes an arbitration, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 2, p. 1439. Means steps or measures adopted in the prosecution or defence of an action, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 816.
Other legal proceeding
legal proceeding, the expression 'other legal proceeding' must be read ejusdem generis with the preceding words 'suit' and prosecution as they constitute a genus. The penalty and adjudication proceedings in question did not fall within the expression
penal action
one who violates a law and that is punitive rather than remedial in nature ;also : a criminal prosecution
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Impeachment
Impeachment, a prosecution by the House of Commons before the House of Lords of any person, either peer or commoner, for
Pursuance
Pursuance, prosecution, process.
Sorcery
Sorcery. Prosecution for witchcraft, sorcery, etc., or for charging another with any such offences, is abolished by the Witchcraft Act,
Costs
the examining justices) may on any such proceedings by order direct the payment of the costs of the prosecution or defence or both in accordance with the provisions of this Act out of the funds of the
discovery
and tests, his or her recorded testimony before a grand jury, and testimony to be given by the prosecution's expert witnesses. A defendant may also inspect the prosecution's books, documents, photographs, objects, and other items of evidence.
Suit
action in the Supreme Court, or a proceeding by petition in the Divorce branch of that Court; a prosecution; a petition to a Court, etc. See Jud. Act, 1873, s. 100. By Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225,
bill
information : information bill of par·tic·u·lars [-pər-ti-kyə-lərz] : a bill that a defendant may request in which the prosecution sets out in detail the facts forming the basis for the criminal charges against the defendant no bill
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