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prejudice

Law Journal"] 2 : a final and binding decision (as an adjudication on the merits) that bars further prosecution of the same cause of action or motion [dismisses this case with ] [the dismissal was without ]

May

(HC) 431: 1953 All 687. The word 'may' occurring in the expression 'as may be produced by the prosecution as witnesses to the actual commission alleged' in section 207A of the Criminal Procedure Code does not entitle

Newspaper

Court thereon; and the summing-up of the judge, finding of the jury, and judgment of the Court. No prosecution under this Act may be commenced without the sanction of the Attorney-general. Libel.--Under the (English) Libel Act, 1843

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Sanction and direction

but there is this essential difference that in the one case there is a legal impediment to the prosecution if there be no sanction, and in the other case, there is a positive order that the prosecution

To enforce any right or supposed right

To enforce any right or supposed right, in order to attract the provisions of s. 149 the prosecution must establish that there was an unlawful assembly and that the crime was committed in prosecution of the

Material witness

witness is so essential or not would depend on whether he could speak to any part of the prosecution case or whether the evidence led disclosed that he was so situated that he would have been able

Circumstantial evidence

should accept that inference which favours the accused rather than an inference which goes in favour of the prosecution, Ram Das v. State of Maharashtra, (1977) 2 SCC 124: AIR 1977 SC 1164 (1166). Circumstantial evidence, which

Brothel

Brothel [fr. bordel, Fr.], a habitation of prostitutes. To keep one is an offence at Common Law, the prosecution of which by indictment is specially encouraged by the (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c.

Bread

the convicting justices to be published in some newspaper. S. 14 prohibits Sunday baking, and the consents for prosecution for Sunday trading generally, which are required by the (English) Sunday Observance Prosecution Act, 1871 (see SUNDAY), need

prosecutor

prosecutor 1 : a person who institutes a prosecution (as by making an affidavit or complaint charging the defendant) 2 : a government attorney who presents the

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