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privilege
that without a claim of a need to protect military, diplomatic, or national security secrets, the need for evidence in a criminal trial will outweigh a general assertion of executive privilege. informant's privilege : the privilege of … : an exemption from liability where an action is deemed to be justifiable (as in the case of self-defense) or because of the requirements of a position or office ;also : the affirmative defense that an action
confession
the confession has to establish all the necessary elements of the crime. In order to be admissible as evidence, a confession must be voluntary. A guilty plea is considered a judicial confession. … acknowledging the party's guilt (as by admitting commission of a crime) compare admission declaration against interest at declaration, self-incrimination NOTE: Courts differ on how a confession establishes the accused's guilt; for example, in some jurisdictions the confession
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, … 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 SC 3724 (3725). (Evidence Act, 1872,
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defense
allegation in a complaint or to a charge in a charging instrument (as an indictment) ;also : the evidence and arguments presented supporting the defendant's opposition see also accord, alibi, assumption of risk, coercion, consent contributory negligence … defense 1 : the act or action of defending see also self-defense 2 a : the theory or ground that forms the basis for a defendant's opposition to an allegation
Statement
A statement cannot include that which is not stated. But very often to make a statement sensible or self-consistent, it becomes necessary to imply words which are not actually in the statement. Though something is not expressly
Alien
status of married women and infant children, loss of British Nationality, the status of aliens, and procedure and evidence. The effect of the Act is shortly as follows: By s. 1 the following persons are deemed natural-born … s. 9 provides that the provisions of the Act as to naturalization shall not have effect within the Self-Governing Dominions unless the Government of the Dominion adopts them. The third part of the Act deals with the
Navy
[fr. navis, Lat., a ship], an assemblage of ships, commonly ships of war; a fleet. [S. 57(3), Indian Evidence Act] The discipline of the Navy was formerly regulated by certain express rules, articles, and orders, first enacted … Naval Discipline Acts, 1884, 1909, 1915 (2), 1917, and 1922. See Chit. Stat., tit. 'Navy.' As to the self-governing Colonies, see the (English) Naval Discipline (Dominion Naval Forces) Act, 1911.
self-incrimination
Matched in: Term self-incrimination
Self evident
Matched in: Term Self evident
Semi-plena probatio
Semi-plena probatio, a semi-proof; the testimony of one person, upon which the civilians would not allow any sentence to be founded. See UNUS NULLUS
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