Prosecuted

Prosecuted, is comprehensive enough to take in a prosecution before an authority other than a Magisterial or a Criminal Court, Thomas Dana v. State of Punjab, AIR 1959 SC 375: 1959 Cr LJ 392....

Regular Cadre of Prosecuting Officers

Regular Cadre of Prosecuting Officers, means a Cadre of Prosecuting Officer which includes therein the post of a Public Prosecutor, by whatever name called, and which provides for promotion of Assistant Public Prosecutors by whatever name called, to that post. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 24(6). Expln. (a) (Prov)]...

prosecuting attorney

prosecuting attorney : an attorney who represents the government in instituting and proceeding with criminal actions : district attorney ...

Sanction to prosecute

Sanction to prosecute, is only an administrative order and does not by itself affect the rights of any party, State of Bihar v. P.P. Sharma, AIR 1991 SC 1260....

Prosecuting officer

Prosecuting officer, means a person, by whatever name called, appointed to perform the functions of a public prosecutor, an Additional Public Prosecutor or an Assistant Public Prosecutor under this Code. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 24(6) (Exp-b) (prev.)]...

Director of Public Prosecutions

Director of Public Prosecutions. See PUBLIC PRO-SECUTOR....

prosecutive

prosecutive : of or relating to prosecution [ function] ...

prosecuting witness

prosecuting witness see witness ...

conspiracy

conspiracy pl: -cies [Latin conspiratio, from conspirare to conspire see conspire ] 1 : an agreement between two or more people to commit an act prohibited by law or to commit a lawful act by means prohibited by law ;also : the crime or tort of participating in a conspiracy compare substantive crime NOTE: Some states require an overt act in addition to the agreement to constitute conspiracy. chain conspiracy : a conspiracy in which 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 a crime 2 : a group of conspirators ...

Costs

Costs, expenses incurred in litigation or professional transactions, consisting of money paid for stamps, etc., to the officers of the Court, or to the counsel and solicitors, for their fees, etc.Costs in actions are either between solicitor and client, being what are payable in every case to the solicitor by his client, whether he ultimately succeed or not; or between party and party, being those only which are allowed in some particular cases to the party succeeding against his adversary, and these are either interlocutory, given on various motions and proceedings in the course of the suit or action, or final, allowed when the matter is determined.Neither party was entitled to costs at Common Law, but the Statute of Gloucester (6 Edw. 1, c. 4), gave cots to a successful plaintiff, and 2 & 3 Hen. 8, c. 6, and 4 Jac. 1, c. 3, to a victorious defendant; see Garnett v. Bradley, (1878) 3 App Cas 944.In proceedings between the Crown and a subject the general rule is that the Crown neither ...

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