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Office
this law is required.' The Act remained on the Statute Book until its repeal by the (English) Promissory Oaths Act, 1871--the particularities of the Act of Richard the Second having been (it is presumed) conceived to have
Induction
the church, is of the spiritual. A clerk thus presented is in full possession of the temporalities. The oaths and subscriptions taken before induction were altered by the (English) Clerical Subscription Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict.
Inquiry, Court of
Army (Annual) Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 2), allows the evidence (previously unsworn) to be given on oath. The person charged (if the report of the Court be against him) has no right to a Court-martial,
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punishable on summary conviction must be laid within six months, and need not be in writing or on oath unless some Act of Parliament (i.e., the Act under which the particular offence is punishable) otherwise require, and
Ley or Loi
Ley or Loi, law; the oath with compurgators; also a meadow.
Indictment
show], a written accusation against one or more persons of a crime formerly preferred to and presented upon oath by a grand jury. Grand juries were partly abolished by the Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Pro-visions) Act, 1933
Indecent prints or books
searching of houses, etc., in which obscene books, pictures, etc., are suspected to be kept, on complaint on oath that the complainant believes that such books are there, and that one or more of the like character
Impotence
Impotence, physical inability of a man or woman to perform the act of sexual intercourse. A marriage is void if, at the time of the celebration, either of the parties to it is incurably impotent, and...
Inspection of written documents
in the pleadings or affidavits of the other, and may, by leave of a judge, and upon an affidavit, inspect other documents in possession of the other; and by Ord. L., r. 3, any party to a
Inquiry, writ of
action, and 'because it is unknown what damages the plaintiff has sustained,' commanding the sheriff that, by the oath of twelve men of his county, he diligently inquire into the same, and return the inquisition into court.
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