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his title, which devolves upon others. Forfeiture resulted from the following circumstan-ces:--(1) Treason, misprision of treason, felony, murder, self-murder, pr'munire, and striking or threatening a judge. But the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. … threatening a judge. But the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), enacted that no conviction, etc., for treason or felony, or felo de se, shall cause any forfeiture except as consequent on outlawry.

overt act

: an act directed toward another person that indicates an intent to kill or harm and that justifies self-defense 2 : an outward act that is done in furtherance of a conspiracy, of treason, or of the … treason, or of the crime of attempt and that is usually a required element of such crimes for conviction even if it is legal in itself

Prerogative of mercy

be considered to have incurred any criminal respon-sibility, e.g., persons who had committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defence (Pollock and Maitland's Hist. Engl. Law, vol. ii., pp. 476 et seq.), but was even extended to jurors

Magna Carta

at once the security of peace and the sinews of war). The 9th chapter perpetuates our right of self-government, the source and bulwork of our constitutional freedom. It enacts that:-'The City of London shall have all the … the abolition of feudalism. The 22nd chapter declares thus:-'We will not hold the lands of them that be convict of felony but one year and one day, and then those lands shall be delivered to the lords

Bread

S. 8 of the Act of 1836 enacts that the names, addresses and offences of bakers and others convicted of adulterating bread may be directed by the convicting justices to be published in some newspaper. S. 14 … c. 28], amended the then existing law so as to remove the restrictions as to the use of self-raising flour.

Confession

gravely incriminating fact, even a conclusively incriminating fact is not of itself a confession. A statement that contains self- exculpatory matter cannot amount to a confession, if the exculpatory statement is of some fact, which if true, … the confession is in fact voluntary and without there being any doubt in regard thereto, an order of conviction can be founded on such evidence, State of Punjab v. Gurdeep Singh, (1999) 7 SCC 714: AIR 1999

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