Plea - Law Dictionary Search Results
Cepit in alio loco
Cepit in alio loco, a plea in replevin, when the defendant took the goods in another place than that mentioned in the declaration.
Arraignment
criminal prosecution whereby the defendant is brought before the court to hear the charges and to enter a plea, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 104.
Claim of liberty
Claim of liberty, a suit or petition to the king in the Court of Exchequer, to have liberties and franchises confirmed there by the attorney-general.
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sur
sur [Anglo-French, on, upon, from Latin super over] : on the basis of : with regard to [ petition for rehearing]
Coke, Sir Edward
Queen Elizabeth, knighted by James I. shortly after his accession in 1603, made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1606 and of the King's Bench in 1613, 'taking particular delight,' writes Lord Campbell in his Lives
Complaint
Industries Corpn. Ltd., (1994) 3 SCC 504 (508). [Consumer Protection Act, 1986, s. (2) (1) (c) (ii)] A petition addressed to the Magistrate containing an allegation that an offence has been committed and ending with a prayer
Confessing error
Confessing error, the affirmative plea to an assignment of error.
Connivance and consent
Connivance and consent, Connivance means consent. The plea of consent is one thing: the fact that connivance means consent (assuming that it does) is quite another.
Contestatio litis
Contestatio litis, the plea and joinder of issue in the Ecclesiastical Courts.
Copy, true copy
could possibly mislead a reasonable person to understand and meet the charges/allegations made against him in the election petition. Indeed a copy which differs in material particulars from the original cannot be treated as a true copy
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