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Pretensed right

that both purchaser and vendor should each forfeit the value of such land to the King and the prosecutor; but a right of entry may be sold by virtue of the Real Property Act, 1845, s. 6,

the inferior (Sheriff's) Courts in Scotland has its Procurator Fiscal, who acts, with deputies if necessary, as Public Prosecutor; and to make inquiry in to suspected offences in his area; under guidance of Crown Office Regulations. There

Promoter

applied to a common informer generally (see 5 Inst. 191), but in modern times applied only to the prosecutor of an ecclesiastical suit, as in Combe v. Edwards, (1878) 3 PD 103. Those who obtain, or take

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Publication

lies on the Defendant, Vizetelly v. Mudie's Library, (1900) 2 QB 170. In criminal libel, publication to the prosecutor in sufficient. For the purposes of the Copyright Act, 1911, publica-tion means the issue of copies of a

Regular Cadre of Prosecuting Officers

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

Information

[Freedom of Information Act, 2002 (5 of 2003), s. 2(d)] Means a formal criminal charge made by a prosecutor without a grand-jury indictment. The information is used to prosecute misdemeanors in most states. About half the States

Tyburn ticket

Tyburn ticket, a certificate which was given to the prosecutor of a felon to conviction.

Vexatious indictments

conspiracy, indecent assault or certain other misdemeanours therein named, should be presented to a grand jury, unless the prosecutor had been bound over by recognizance to prosecute, or unless the person accused had been committed to or

Keeping a brothel

was being used as a brothel and that the person alleged was so keeping it, Krishnamurthy v. Public Prosecutor, (1967) 1 SCR 586: AIR 1967 SC 567 (568). [Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act,

Battery

a child by its parent, or the punishment of a criminal by the proper officer, or that the prosecutor assaulted or beat the defendant first, and that the defendant committed the alleged battery merely in his own

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