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Petty Sessions
the S.J. Acts by any person aggrieved by any conviction in respect of any offence who did not plead, or who has pleaded, guilty, or did or did not admit the truth of the information [(English) Criminal
Peine forte et dure
3 Bl. Com. 325], an old punishment by which a prisoner, indicted for felony, if he refused to plead, was pressed by a heavy weight of iron till he died or answered, 2 Reeves, c. ix., 134;
Precedent
tit. 'Decided Cases,' and Chitty on Contracts. The term 'precedents' is also used to designate the collections of pleadings, such as Bullen and Leake's Precedents of Pleadings, or of forms of wills, settlements, leases, mortgages, and other
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Not guilty by Statute
Very many Acts from time to time allowed defendants sued for doing things in pursuance of them to plead 'not guilty by statute' (or the general issue, as it was described in the statute). They are mostly
Lis pendens
between the same a parties for the same cause of action might, under the former practice, have been pleaded in abatement, though not in bar; but the pendency of an action in an inferior or foreign court
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
be taken of the statutes of limitation in an action unless an issue thereon be raised by the pleadings, (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 15. As to land, see Ord. XXI. As to renewal of writs
Imparlance
Imparlance [fr. licentia loquendi, Lat.], time to plead; also when a Court gives a party leave to answer or plead at another time, without the assent
Forthwith
Forthwith. When a defendant is ordered to plead forthwith, he must plead within twenty four hours. When a statute or rule of Court requires an act
Circuity of action
to recover back from the plaintiff the same sum which the plaintiff sought to recover, the defendant might plead the facts which constitute such right as a defence, in order to avoid circuity of action, Bullen &
Defence
either confesses the charge by saying 'Guilty,' or words equivalent thereto, stands mute, does not answer directly, or pleads to the jurisdiction, or demurs, or pleads specially in bar, or generally, that he is not guilty. The
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