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Threats

years. See also, s. 29 (ibid.), as to threats to accuse of certain serious crimes, and BLACKMAIL. The sending of letters threatening to murder is punishable by penal servitude not exceeding ten years (Offences against the Person

Renvoi

Renvoi, a term employed in private international law to denote the sending, or determination, of a matter to or according to the law of a tribunal outside the jurisdiction where

Commitment

Commitment, (1) the sending a person to prison by warrantor order, either for a crime, contempt, or contumacy [see the (English) Debtors

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Emission

The act of sending or throwing out the act of sending forth or putting into circulation issue as the emission of light

Photographs

any work produced by any process analogous to photography (s. 35). See COPYRIGHT. It is a misdemeanour to send indecent matter, including photographs, through the post. [(Eng-lish) Post Office Act, 1908, s. 63, as amended by the

Jury nullification

and deliberate rejection of the evidence or refusal to apply the law either because the jury wants to send a message about some social issue that is larger than the case itself or because the result dictated

Letter of cover

known that in order to obtain an insurance against the risk of fire the assured has first to send a proposal to the insurer and then the insurer takes a little time in making enquiries as to

Letters of request

also (English) Church Discipline Act, 1840 (3 & 4Vict. c. 86), s. 13, by which a bishop may send a case by letters of request to the Court of Appeal to the province. (2) The words 'letters

Letters of safe-conduct

by the law of nations, come into the realm, nor can travel himself upon the high seas, or send his goods and merchandise from one place to another, without danger of being seized by our subjects, unless

Magna Carta

in the shires, and after this manner; if we be out of this realm, our chief, justicers shall send our justices through every county once in the year, which, with the knights of the shires, shall take

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