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Relicta verificatione
Relicta verificatione. ['his pleading being aban-doned'] Where a judgment was confessed by cognovit actionem after plea pleaded, and the plea was withdrawn,
Judgment
The several species of judgments are either:- (a) Interlocutory, given in the course of a cause, upon some plea, proceeding, or default, which is only intermediate, and does not finally determine or complete the action. See INQUIRY;
Arraign
reading to him the indictment, demanding of him whether he be guilty or not guilty, and entering his plea. The pleas upon arraignment are either the general issue, i.e., not guilty, or a plea in abatement or
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Application
SC 749 (753): (2002) 3 SCC 130. [Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, (2 of 1956) s. 671] Application for plea bargaining' see Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 265B.
Abatement
require an immediate remedy, and cannot wait for the slow progress of the ordinary forms of justice. (3) Plea in Abatement.-A defence by which a defendant showed cause to the Court why he should not be sued,
Winding-up
by s. 265, the commencement of the winding-up being deemed to correspond with the presentation of a bankruptcy petition (for the date of commencement of a winding-up by the Court, see s. 175; of a voluntary winding-up,
Non assumpsit
Non assumpsit (he did not promise), a plea by way of traverse, which occurred in the action of assumpsit or promises. This plea operated as a
Uncore prist
Uncore prist, the plea of a defendant in the nature of a plea in bar, where being sued for a debt due
Co-respondent
Co-respondent, the man charged with adultery. The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 177,enacts that on a petition for divorce presented by the husband or in the answer of a husband praying for divorce, the petitioner
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,
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