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McNabb-Mallory rule

Criminal Procedure the doctrine that a confession is inadmissible if obtained during an reasonably long detention period between arrest and preliminary hearing. Because of the broader protections afforded under the Mioranda rule, the McNabb-Mallory rule is rarely

Serjeant

Coif. Lord Lindley, d. 1921, was the last surviving Serjeant-at-Law. (2) Serjeants-at-arms, officers attending the sover-eign's person to arrest individuals of distinction offending, and give attendance on the Lord High Steward of England, sitting in judgment on

Music

having been discovered in Ex parte Francis, (1903) 1 KB 275; the Act of 1906 empowers constables to arrest, without warrant, sellers of music notified to the chief officer of police by the owners as copyright.

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Mesne process

IMPRISONMENT. By the (English) Judgments Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), s. 1, the power of arrest upon mesne process was relaxed, and confined to the case of a debtor about to quit England, and

Accused of any offence

put on trial, whether or not at the time when he made the confessional statement, he was under arrest or in custody as an accused in that case or not, Bheru Singh v. State of Rajasthan, (1994)

Breach of peace

a breach of the peace is imminent he may be justified in committing an assault or effecting an arrest; R.F.V. Heuston, Salmond on the Law of Torts, 131 (17th Edn., 1977). Means a disturbance of public peace

Justicies

Bl. Com. 36. As the sheriff could not, by this process, or the judgment to be obtained thereupon, arrest the defendant' body, but only take his goods, and as the cause might be removed at the defendant's

Cognizable offence

may, in accordance with the First Schedule or under any other law for the time being in force, arrest without warrant. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2 (c)]

Investigation

(i) proceeding to the spot; (ii) ascertainment of the facts and circumstances of the case; (iii) discovery and arrest of the suspected offender; (iv) collection of evidence relating to the commission of the offence which may consist

Intervention

intervene and appear as heretofore on filing an affidavit showing that he is interested in the res under arrest, or in the fund in the registry (ibid., r. 24). As to actions for the recovery of land,

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