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return
of all residents in the ward] [ a list of jurors] b : to bring back (as a writ, verdict, or indictment) to an office or tribunal [the sheriff must the execution…to the proper clerk within sixty … return 1 a : to give (an official account or report) to a superior (as by a list or statement) [ the names of all residents in the ward]
Vicarious responsibility
Vicarious responsibility. A principal is liable for acts of his agent within the scope of his mandate. If A., an innocent principal, by B. his agent to report, misleads C., his selling agent, and C., … his agent within the scope of his mandate. If A., an innocent principal, by B. his agent to report, misleads C., his selling agent, and C., relying on the report, innocently misleads the buyer, the latter may
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Limitation of actions and prosecutions
that title) must be prosecuted within three years. As to the limitation of the time during which a writ of summons remains in force, see SUMMONS, WRIT OF. Consult Darby and Bosanquest or Banning on the Statutes … or Banning on the Statutes of Limitation; and see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Limitation of Actions.' See also Interim Report of the Law Revision Committee, 'Times,' 23rd December, 1936.
False Verdict
Verdict. Formerly, if a jury gave a false verdict, the party injured by it might sue out a writ of attain against them, either at Common Law or on 11 Hen. 7, c. 24, at his election, … the use of attains that there is no instance of one to be found in our books of reports later than in the time of Elizabeth, and it was altogether abolished by the (English) County Juries Act,
Public meeting
committed at a political meeting held in any parliamentary constituency between the date of the issue of a writ for the return of a member of Parliament for such constituency and the date of which a return … reasonably suspects him of giving a false name and address, the constable may without warrant arrest him. Newspaper reports of public meetings (unless such report or publication was published or made maliciously) are 'privileged' (see LIBEL) by
Election Commissioners
the constituency may be disfranchised by statute or by refusal of the House of Commons to issue a writ. … commissioners appointed by the Crown on the joint address of both Houses of Parliament to inquire into the report made by judges on the trial of an election petition (q.v.) that corrupt and illegal practices took place
Dean
of London is Dean of the Province of Canterbury, and to him, as such, the archbishop sends his mandate for summoning the bishops of his province when a convocation is to be assembled. Another division, arising from … all round his diocese, the better to inspect the conduct of the parochial clergy, to inquire into and report dilapidations, and to examine the candidates for confirmation; and armed, in minuter matters, with an inferior degree of
Deceit
504, and see also Sched. XI of the Act of 1929 and MISREPRESENTATION; FRAUD. There was formerly a writ of deceit, which was an action brought in the Common Pleas to reverse a judgment obtained in any … authorizing the issue of the prospectus if there is any untrue statement in the prospectus or in any report or memorandum set out in the prospectus or by reference incorporated therein or issued therewith. The onus is
Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff
making returns thereto, and accepting all rules and orders made as to the execution of any process or writ addressed to the sheriff. The two sheriffs of London are elected by the Corporation of the City. As … of St. Martin, yearly; and then and there the judges propose three persons from each county, to be reported, if approved of, to the King, who afterwards appoints one of them to be sheriff, and such appointment
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