Prisonment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Diversity
Diversity, a plea by the prisoner in bar of execution, alleging that he is not the same who was attainted, upon which a jury
Disincarcerate
Disincarcerate, to set at liberty, to free from prison.
Dock
Dock [fr. docke, Fle., a bird-cage], (1) the place in a Court of criminal law in which a prisoner is placed during his trial, and from which he may instruct counsel without the intervention of a solicitor;
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Duces tecum licet languidus
Duces tecum licet languidus, a writ directed to the sheriff upon a return that he cannot bring his prisoner without danger of death, he being adeo languidus; whereupon the Court grants a habeas corpus in the nature
Dum fuit in prisona
Dum fuit in prisona (while he was in prison), an abolished writ of entry to restore a man to lands which he
Escape-warrant
Escape-warrant, a process addressed to all sheriffs, etc., throughout England, to retake an escaped prisoner, even on a Sunday, and commit him to proper custody, 1 Anne, c. 16.
Ex parte talis
who, having auditors appointed to take his accounts, cannot obtain of them reasonable allowance, but is case into prison.-Fitz. N.B. 129.
Extradition
resides, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 607. Extradition, is turning over of an alleged criminal, fugitive or prisoner by one country to another, Webster American Dictionary, p. 412.
Excommunicato deliberando
Excommunicato deliberando, a writ to the sheriff for delivery of an excommunicated person out of prison, upon certificate from the ordinary of his conformity to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction, Fitz. N.B. 63.
Excommunicato recapiendo
Excommunicato recapiendo, a writ commanding that persons excommunicated, who for their obstinacy had been committed to prison, but were unlawfully set free before they had given caution to obey the authority of the church, should
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