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Practice
2002 (92 of 2003), s. 2(m)] The form and manner of conducting and carrying on suits, actions, or prosecutions at law or in equity, civil or criminal, through their various stages, from the commencement to final judgment
Plegii de prosequendo
Plegii de prosequendo, pledges to prosecute with effect an action of replevin.
Plea
Pleas were divided into common pleas, relating to civil causes, and pleas of the Crown, relating to criminal prosecutions. At Common Law pleas were divided into: (1) Dilatory; which were subdivided into: (a) To the jurisdiction of
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East India Company
East India Company. The East India Company was originally established for prosecuting the trade between England and India, which they acquired as a right to carry on exclusively. By the
Amendment
Amendment, a correction of any errors in the writ or pleadings in actions, suits, or prosecutions. The power of allowing amendments has been much extended by modern statutes and rules, but it will not
Disorderly houses
or other commission of crime. See (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), by which prosecutions by indictment of persons keeping 'bawdy houses, gaming houses, and other disorderly houses' for the Common Law misdemeanour
misprision
summary proceeding 3 : the concealment of a treason or felony and failure to report it to the prosecuting authorities by a person who has not committed it [ of felony] [ of treason]
tribal court
by members of the tribe, and broader civil jurisdiction over claims between tribe members and nonmembers NOTE: Criminal prosecutions of tribal members in tribal courts must respect constitutional rights specifically listed in the Indian Civil Rights Act,
summons
lieu of a warrant for arrest by an authorized judicial officer (as a magistrate) upon request of a prosecuting attorney c : a notification to appear for jury service d : a notification to appear as a
specialty
the contract : formal contract at contract 2 : a doctrine providing that a person extradited can be prosecuted only for the charges described in the order for extradition 3 : real property (as a parcel of
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