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Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English)
the Court of Criminal Appeal under s. 3 against an ordermade by a Court of Assize or Quarter Sessions under the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 55. … admiration of our national jurisprudence was almost a foible, passed some severe criticisms on the stateof the criminal law of his day. In more recent times Lord James of Hereford (then Sir Henry James) introduced a criminal
Husband and wife
the poor rates without her husband, an order may be made upon the husband by justices in petty sessions to maintain his wife by paying towards the cost of her relief such sum, weekly or otherwise, in … Husband and wife. the Common Law treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's
Adoption
that upon an application of any person desirous of being authorized to adopt a child, the Court of Session or the Sheriff Court may in certain circumstances make an adoption order authorizing the adoption. Applications are made … act by which a person adopts as his own the child of another. Until recently there was no law of adoption in this country though it exists in other countries, as France and Germany, where the civil
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Bill of exceptions
acted upon. The present mode of proceeding is by motion for a new trial. In the Court of Session in Scotland a Bill of Exceptions presented to the Inner House is the procedure for obtaining a new … to the Judicature Acts, if a judge, at the trial of a cause at Nisi Prius, mistook the law, either in directing a judgment of nonsuit or in refusing or admitting evidence or challenges, and other matters,
Metropolitan Police Magistrates
any offence who did not plead guilty or admit the truth f the information may appeal to quarter sessions [(English) Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914], s. 37; and (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925, s. 25. This does … not affect the alternative appeal to the High Court by way of case stated on a point of law given by the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1857
County
are subdivided for purposes of parliamentary representation. As to the divisons of counties for holding petty and special sessions, see the (English) Division of Counties Act, 1828 (9 Geo. 4, c. 43), the (English) Petty Sessional Divisions … division for local government within a state, generally considered to be a political subdivision and a quasi-corporation, Black's Laws Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Trial
v. Kumud Behari Basu, 1951 ILR 1 Cal 404. Means so far as trial before a court of session is concerned the judicial proceedings before court of session which ends in a judgment of acquittal or conviction … Federation Ltd., (1998) 5 SCC 69. Trial, is the examination by a competent court of the facts or laws in dispute, or put in issue in a case. It is the judicial examination of issues between the
Impotence
MARRIAGE. As to 'Oath of Calumny' (q.v.) in Scottish actions of divorce and nullity, see (English) Court of Session Act, 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4, c. 69), s. 36. Impotence means a man's inability … an impotent husband cannot consummate a marriage, impotence has often been cited as a ground for annulment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 760
Act of Parliament
provision to extend the duration of Parliament beyond five years, is passed by the Commons in three successive sessions (whether of the same Parliament or not) and is rejected on each occasion by the Lords, it becomes … Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons,
Court
lies from the Court of Appeal, the County Court, the Courts of Summary Jurisdiction, the Courts of Quarter Sessions, the Court of Arches, the Consistory Court. Courts are either of record, where their acts and judicial proceedings … being courts of inferior dignity, and in a less propesense the King's Courts--and these are not entrusted by law with any power to fine or imprison the subjects of the realm, unless by the express provision of
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