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Pigeons
above the value of the bird, and though the owner be compensated and satisfied, any other person may prosecute, see Cotterill v. Penn, (1935) 51 TLR 459, and LQR (1935), p. 60, in which a member of
Good faith
v. Union of India, AIR 1971 SC 530 (554): (1971) 1 SCC 65. The expression good faith qualifies prosecuting the proceeding in the Court which ultimately is found to have no jurisdiction. Failure to pay the requisite
Costs
namely,-- (a) a court of assize or a court of quarter sessions before which any indictable offence is prosecuted or tried, and (b) a court of summary jurisdiction by which an indictable offence is dealt with summarily
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Bill of Rights
by levying money for the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, without consent of Parliament; by prosecuting those who petitioned the King, and discouraging petitions; by raising and keeping a standing army in time of
Attorney-General
the Supreme Court. He is also ex-officio head of the bar for the time being. He exhibits informations, prosecutes for the Crown in criminal matters and in revenue causes, and used to grant fiats for writs of
Action
is due to some one.) Actions are divided into criminal and civil: criminal actions are more properly called prosecutions, and perhaps actions penal, to recover some penalty under statute, are properly criminal actions. There were formerly three
Implead
To institute and prosecute a suit against in court to sue or prosecute at law hence to accuse to impeach
non prosequitur
non prosequitur [Late Latin, he or she does not prosecute] : a judgment entered against a plaintiff for failure to appear to prosecute a suit compare nolle prosequi
double jeopardy
double jeopardy : the prosecution of a person for an offense for which he or she has already been prosecuted - see also
conspiracy
the conspirators act separately and successively (as in distributing narcotics) civil conspiracy : a conspiracy that is not prosecuted as a crime but that forms the grounds for a lawsuit criminal conspiracy : a conspiracy prosecuted as
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