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plea agreement : an agreement reached at the conclusion of plea bargaining : plea bargain ...
Sentence Cap
Sentence Cap, means a pre-trial plea agreement in a court-martial proceeding, by which a ceiling is placed on the maximum penalty that can be imposed, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1368...
Never Indebted, plea of
Never Indebted, plea of, a species of traverse which occurred in actions of debt on simple contract, and was resorted to when the defendant meant to deny in point of fact the existence of any express contract to the effect alleged in the declaration, or to deny the matters of facts from which such contract would bylaw be implied, Steph. Plead., 7th ed. 153, 156. By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 17, a defendant may not deny geneally the facts alleged by the plaintiff. See, further, PLEADING....
plea bargaining
plea bargaining : the negotiation of an agreement between the prosecution and the defense whereby the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser offense or to one or some of multiple offenses usually in exchange for more lenient sentencing recommendations, a specific sentence, or dismissal of other charges plea-bargain vi plea bargain n ...
guilty plea
guilty plea a criminal defendant's admission to the court that he or she committed the offense he or she is charged with and his or her agreement to waive the right to trial. If the court accepts the plea, the case proceeds to sentencing. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...
General issue
General issue, a plea simply traversing modo et forma the allegations in the declaration, as the plea of 'not guilty' in torts; 'never indebted' to money counts, or 'nunquam assumpsit' to actions on simple contract (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, Sched. B, 37). Pleading the general issue was abolished by the (English) Judicature Acts, R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 4, providing that every pleading shall contain, and contain only, a statement in a summary form of the facts on which the party pleading relies; and the particular form of pleading the general issue by pleading ''not guilty by statute' (see that title) is abolished by the (English) Public Authorities Protection Act, 1893, as regards any proceeding to which that Act applies.In criminal proceedings the general issue is 'not guilty,' which is pleaded viva voce by the prisoner at the bar....
Concord
Concord, an agreement between parties, who intend to levy a fine of lands one to the other, how and in what manner the lands shall pass; it was the foundation and sustenance of the fine taken and acknowledged by the party before one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, or before commissioners in the country; also an agreement made between two persons, one of whom has a right of action against the other. It is of two kinds, concord executory and concord executed, Plowd. 5, 6, 8....
voluntary
voluntary 1 a : proceeding from one's own free choice or consent rather than as the result of duress, coercion, or deception [a statement] b : not compelled by law : done as a matter of choice or agreement [ arbitration] c : made freely and with an understanding of the consequences [a plea of guilty] 2 : done by design or intention 3 : made without valuable consideration or for nominal consideration [a conveyance] vol·un·tar·i·ly [vÄ -lən-ter-ə-lē] adv vol·un·tar·i·ness n ...
Petition de droit (Petition of Right UK)
Petition de droit (Petition of Right UK), one of the Common Law methods of obtaining possession or restitution from the Crown of either real or personal property, or compensation in damages for breach of contract, the Crown not being liable to an ordinary action at the suit of a subject. It is said to owe its origin of Edward I.By the (UK) Petition of Right Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 34) (commonly called Bovill's Act), the procedure on a petition of right is assimilated as far as practic-able to the course of an ordinary action. The fiat of the sovereign 'that right be done' is, however, a necessary preliminary step; this is obtained by leaving the petition with the Home Secretary. A judgment that the suppliant is entitled to the whole or some portion of the relief sought by his petition, or to such other relief as the Court may think right, has the same effect as a judgment of amoveas manus. Costs are made payable both to and by the Crown, and nothing in the Act is to prevent any sup...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
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