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Diligent

Prosecuted with careful attention and effort careful painstaking not careless or negligent

Impleader

One who prosecutes or sues another

VerbarNolle prosequi

Will not prosecute an entry on the record denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit or the attorney for the public

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Prosecutor

One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose plan or business

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

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

Advocate, Lord

and one of the great Officers of State of Scotland. It is his duty to act as public prosecutor; but private individuals injured may prosecute upon obtaining his concurrence. He is assisted by a Solicitor-General and four

special prosecutor

special prosecutor : a prosecutor appointed to prosecute particular cases that the regular prosecutor is unable or unqualified to prosecute

Sanction

from failure to comply with law, rule or order, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1341. Sanction, for prosecution is a weapon to ensure dis-couragement of frivolous and vexatious prosecu-tion and is a safeguard for the innocent

Preferred

liberty win language may be necessary. Black's Law Dictionary gives the following meaning: PREFER: To bring before; to prosecute; to try to proceed with. Thus, preferring an indictment signifies prosecuting or trying an indictment. To give advantage,

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