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Capella
Cape, a judicial writ touching a plea of lands or tenements, divided into cape magnum, or the grand cape, which lay before appearance to summon
Culprit
Culprit. The prisoner at the Bar awaiting his trial after a plea of not guilty. 'Its first recorded use is in the trial of the Earl of Pembroke for murder
Unclaimed property
an order in his favour from the Chancery Division of the High Court, which 'shall, on application by petition by the new claimant, verified as the Court requires, order the National Debt Commissioners to transfer to him
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rule
precept 2 a : an order or directive issued by a court in a particular proceeding esp. upon petition of a party to the proceeding that commands an officer or party to perform an act or show
Trial
the prisoner arraigned, before the jury is sworn. The parties may then challenge the jury. (see CHALLENGE.) The pleading are then (in civil causes and misdemeanours) opened by the junior counsel for the plaintiff; and if it
Suit
following. It is used in divers senses:- (1) An action in the Supreme Court, or a proceeding by petition in the Divorce branch of that Court; a prosecution; a petition to a Court, etc. See Jud. Act,
current monthly income
bankruptcy case, including regular contributions to household expenses from nondebtors and income from the debtor's spouse if the petition is a joint petition, but not including social security income and certain other payments made because the debtor
Assign
to set forth, as to assign error, false judgment; to new assign was, under the old practice, a pleading by the plaintiff following the defendant's plea wherein the plaintiff pointed out the exact grievance meant to be
Municipal corporation
A separate commission and a separate Court of Quarter Sessions may also be granted by the Crown on petition of the Council to such boroughs as do not possess them. Where there is a separate Court of
Reeve
conquest the hundred assembly, now called a court as all the others were, lost its importance very quickly. Pleas of land were taken from it, and its criminal jurisdiction limited to one of holding suspects in temporary
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