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Master of the Crown Office

who prosecuted at the relation of some private person or common in former, the Crown being the nominal prosecutor, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 20. He is now an officer of the Supreme Court. See CROWN OFFICE.

Not guilty

charge in the indictment; the effect of which plea is, that on the one hand, it puts the prosecutor to the proof of every material fact alleged in the indictment or information, and on the other it

Obstruction of justice

of law and justice, as by giving false information to or withholding evidence from a police officer or prosecutor, or by harming or intimidating a witness or juror. Obstruction of justice is a crime in most jurisdictions.

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Occasion arises

the cold war becomes or threatens to become a hot war that would certainly be an 'occasion', Public Prosecutor v. K.G. Sivaswamy, AIR 1954 Mad 249 (252). [Police Act, 1861, s. 30(1)]

Office of a judge

Office of a judge: the prosecutor in an ecclesiastical criminal suit is called the promotor officii judicis. He is either necessarius when the prosecution

Parties

The grantee or release; (5) Trustees for the grantee or releasee. In criminal cases the parties are the prosecutor and the prisoner or defendant. Parties to a cause, civil or criminal, have a right to be present,

Similiter

s. 79 of that Act superseded the Similiter. See now ISSUE. The want of a similiter by the prosecutor in criminal cases is cured by the (English) Criminal Law Act, 1826 (7 & 8 Geo. 4, c.

Pleas of the Crown

the person injured by every wrong done to that community, and is, therefore, in all cases, the proper prosecutor for every such offence. See the works on this subject of Coke (3rd Institute), Hale, or Hawkins.

Pre-meditated act

Pre-meditated act, means a determined act or deliberately intended, but not sudden or accidental, Public Prosecutor, Andhra Pradesh High Court v. Bande Siddaiah, (1978) 2 Andh WR 461: (1978) Mad LJ (Cr) 698.

Prerogative of mercy

private accusations of felony) which were not the suit of the King, but of the party injured, the prosecutor might release, but the King could not pardon: 3 Inst. 237. Appeals by wager of battel (see that

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