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Trover

Trover [fr. trouver, Fr., to find]. This was a special action upon the case, properly called the action of trover...

Unica taxatio, the obsolete language of a special award of venire, where, of several defendants, one pleads, and one lets...

it shall be lawful for any justice to commit such offender (being thereof convicted before him) to the house of correction,

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Verdict [fr. vere dictum, Lat.], the determination of a jury declared to a judge. 1. A jury's finding or decision...

the benches on either side of the aisle. Before an offender is brought to the Bar of the House, the Speaker

Circuity of action, a longer course of proceeding to recover a thing sued for than is needful--Terms de la Ley;...

In pari delicto potior est conditio possidentis.-(In equal fault, the condition of the possessor is the more favourable.) Where both...

Bail to the action, is the surety for a civil defendant arrested by a mesne process e.g. a process issued...

presumption : an inference as to the existence of a fact not certainly known that the law requires to be...

Bail [fr. bailler, Fr., to hand over], to set at liberty a person arrested or imprisoned, on security being taken...

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