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Self conviction

The act of convicting ones self or the state of being self convicted … The act of convicting ones self or the state of being self convicted

Self convicted

Convicted by ones own consciousness knowledge avowal or acts

Self evident

conviction upon a bare presentation to the mind as a self evident proposition or truth

Confession

is not of itself a confession. A statement that contains self- exculpatory matter cannot amount to a confession, if the exculpatory … there being any doubt in regard thereto, an order of conviction can be founded on such evidence, State of Punjab v.

Magna Carta

sinews of war). The 9th chapter perpetuates our right of self-government, the source and bulwork of our constitutional freedom. It enacts … and as each juror might have been subjected to a conviction, it was no doubt reasonable that every one should have

Prerogative of mercy

e.g., persons who had committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defence (Pollock and Maitland's Hist. Engl. Law, vol. ii., pp. 476 … The Prerogative of Mercy was frequently invoked to alter the sentence, either to obviate the necessity for the literal execution of

Bread

as to remove the restrictions as to the use of self-raising flour. … that the names, addresses and offences of bakers and others convicted of adulterating bread may be directed by the convicting justices

Forfeiture

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) … 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), enacted that no conviction, etc., for treason or felony, or felo de se, shall

overt act

indicates an intent to kill or harm and that justifies self-defense 2 : an outward act that is done in furtherance … that is usually a required element of such crimes for conviction even if it is legal in itself

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