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Irremeable

Admitting no return as an irremeable way

VerbarNon est inventus

The return of a sheriff on a writ when the defendant is not found in his county

Postea

The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried after a verdict of what was done in the

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Mandavi ballivo

Mandavi ballivo (I have commanded the bailiff). If a bailiff of a liberty have the execution and return of a writ, the sheriff may return that he commanded the bailiff to execute it; and if the

Challenge

full jury appear, either party may challenge them for cause, as well the talesmen as the jurors originally returned. Challenges are of two kinds: (1) to the array; (2) to the polls; and each of these is

Election

steps, some of which may have an important bearing on the result of the process, N.P. Ponnuswami v. Returning Officer, AIR 1952 SC 64: (1952) SCR 218. [Constitution of India, Art. 329(b)] The word 'election' means the

Extent

in aid. (1) Extent in chief. It issues from the Exchequer, and may bear teste and be made returnable on any day certain in term of vacation (5 & 6 Vict. c. 86, s. 8). It directs

Custos brevium

belonging to the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, whose office it was to keep the writs returnable into those courts. Abolished by 1 Wm. 4, c. 5.

Enlarge

Enlarge, to extend time, as to extend the time within which a rule is returnable, or an appeal may be brought, or an award made.

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

complaint award in vacation a writ of habeas corpus,'directed to the person in whose custody the party is, returnable immediately. Besides the efficacy of the writ of habeas corpus in liberating the subject from illegal confinement in

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