Muteness - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: mutenessdeaf muteness
the condition of being a deaf mute a congenital deafness that results in inability to speak...
muted
same as quiet as the muted atmosphere of a church Opposite of noisy...
Mutely
Without uttering words or sounds in a mute manner silently...
Muteness
The quality or state of being mute speechlessness...
Mute of malice
Mute of malice, used of one who abstains from pleading to an indictment when he is able to do so. See PEINE FORTE ET DURE....
Standing mute
Standing mute. See MUTUS....
VerbarMedia
One of the sonant mutes beta delta gamma b d g in Greek or of their equivalents in other languages so named as intermediate between the tenues pi tau kappa p t k and the aspirataelig aspirates phi theta chi ph or f th ch Also called middle mute or medial and sometimes soft mute...
stand
stand stood stand·ing vi 1 : to be in a particular state or situation [ accused] 2 : to remain valid or effective [let the ruling ] vt : to submit to [ trial] stand in judgment : to submit to the judgment of the court stand in the shoes of : to assume the rights or obligations of stand mute : to be effectively silent: as a : to exercise the privilege against self-incrimination (as in a trial) b : to raise no objections [the prosecution agreed to stand mute at the sentencing] stand on : to depend on esp. as the basis of an argument or claim [a party who stands on the writing as a complete and exclusive embodiment of the contract "J. J. White and R. S. Summers"] n : the place taken by a witness for testifying in court [take the ] compare bar, bench, dock, sidebar ...
Arraign
Arraign [fr. arraisonner, aresner, aregnir, arraigner, Old Fr., i.e., ad rationem ponere, Lat., to call one to account], to bring a prisoner to the bar of the Court to answer the matter charged upon him in the indictment. The arraignment of a prisoner consists of calling upon him by name, reading to him the indictment, demanding of him whether he be guilty or not guilty, and entering his plea. The pleas upon arraignment are either the general issue, i.e., not guilty, or a plea in abatement or in bar, or the prisoner may demur to the indictment, or he may confess the fact, upon which the Court proceeds immediately to judgment. But, if the prisoner 'shall stand mute or malice, or will not answer directly to the indictment or information,' the Court, if it shall so think fit, may 'order the proper officer to enter a plea of 'not guilty' on behalf of such a person, and the plea so entered shall have the same force and effect as if the person had so pleaded the same.'-Crim. Law Act,1827 (7 ...
Mutus
Mutus, silent, not having anything to say.Standing mute is when a person, being arraigned, either cannot speak, or refuses to answer or plead. SEE PEINE FORTE ET DURE.To advise a prisoner to stand mute is a contempt of Court. see MISPRISON....
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