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Adultery

also HUSBAND AND WIFE. Where a man finds another in the act of adultery with his wife, see Rex v. Greening, (1913) 3 KB 846, and kills him or her, in the first transport of passion, he is

Bribe

a bribe, or for such an officer to conspire with others that he shall receive such a bribe, Rex v. Whitaker, (1914) 3 KB 1283. It has long been settled law that the secret profits of an agent

Poison

a subsequent poisoning of other persons is admissible against the prisoner, Reg. v. Geering, (1849) 18 LJMC 215; Rex v. Armstrong, (1922) 38 TLR 631; as also of antecedent poisoning, Reg. v. Garner, (1863) 3 F&F 681. Unlawful

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Borrowing powers

conferring the power to borrow must be strictly pursued, see Att.-Gen. V. De Winton, (1906) 2 Ch 106; Rex v. Locke, (1910) 2 KB 201. A company under the (English) Companies Act, 1929, has no power to borrow

Rem, Judgment in

from saying that the status of the thing adjudicated upon was not such as declared by the adjudication, Rex. v. Hartington, 4 E&B 780; and see Castrique v. Imrie, 8 CBNS (1) 405 and LR 4 HL 414.

Autrefois acquit

R. v. Emden, (1808) 9 East, 437; R. v. King, 1897 (1) QB 214, explained and distinguished in Rex v. Barron, 1914, s. KB 570; Criminal Procedure Act, 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 100), s. 28; and

Communion, Holy

the authorities there referred to. As to the right of the clergyman to repel from Holy Communion, see Rex v. Dibdin, (1910) 57; 1912 AC 533.

Nemo debet bis vexari, si constat curi' quod sit pro una et eadem causa

in the second indictment, Arch. Cr. Plead. For a recent instance of the application of the maxim, see Rex. v. Simpson, (1914) 1 KB 66. See AUTREFOIS CONVICT. But an abortive trial without a verdict, as if a

Sexton

presumption in law that the office of sexton in an ancient parish church is a freehold for life, Rex v. Dymock (Vicar and Churchwardens), (1915) 1 KB 147. His particular duties are to cleanse the church, to pen

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