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Known sources of income

Known sources of income, the expression 'known sources of income' must have reference to sources known to the prosecution on a thorough investigation of the case. It was not, and it could not be, contended that 'known

Tort

Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort:

estoppel

patent from later asserting that a claim deliberately more restricted is equivalent to the original claim called also prosecution history estoppel promissory estoppel : an estoppel that prevents a promisor from denying the existence of a promise

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Reasonable and probable cause

him in custody thereon. Its absence is one of the causes of action in an action for malicious prosecution and its existence is a defence to an action for false imprisonment. After the jury have found the

Carucate

Code,1898 but its meaning is well-understood in legal circles. In criminal jurisdiction means ordinarily a proceeding for the prosecution of a person alleged to have committed an offence. In other contexts the word may represent other kinds

Receiver of stolen property

a felony or misdemeanour depends on which the original stealing, etc., was. Section 43 provides that, on a prosecution of a person for receiving stolen property knowing it to have been stolen or for being in possession

Sanction and direction

but there is this essential difference that in the one case there is a legal impediment to the prosecution if there be no sanction, and in the other case, there is a positive order that the prosecution

Preventive detention

three previous convictions after attaining sixteen years of age, can with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions, R. v. Waller, (1910) 1 KB 364, in certain cases be charged, R. v. Smith, (1910) 1 KB

May

(HC) 431: 1953 All 687. The word 'may' occurring in the expression 'as may be produced by the prosecution as witnesses to the actual commission alleged' in section 207A of the Criminal Procedure Code does not entitle

prejudice

Law Journal"] 2 : a final and binding decision (as an adjudication on the merits) that bars further prosecution of the same cause of action or motion [dismisses this case with ] [the dismissal was without ]

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