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adjourn
put off further proceedings of either indefinitely or until a later stated time : close formally [ing the session] vi : to suspend a session or meeting till another time or indefinitely : suspend formal business or
Scotland and Ireland
Scotland and Ireland. As to service of writ, by leave of judge, upon a defendant resident in Scotland or Ireland, see (English) R.S.C. Ord. XI., rr. 1 (e), 2 and 2A; Williams v. Cartwright, (1895) 1...
Recess
Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 183. Recess, the period between two sessions of Parlia-ment i.e., between a prorogation of Parliament and the opening of a new session, as distinct from
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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
Indictment
commitment of the alleged offender to prison to await his trial at Assizes (see that title) or Quarter Sessions (see SESSIONS OF THE PEACE), or for his admission to bail (see that title), under the Indictable Offences
Assizes Relief Act, 1890
12), to relieve the Court of Assize from the trial of persons charged with offences triable at Quarter Sessions-by which Act justices of the peace are directed to bind over prosecutors to appear at the next practicable
Special case
[(English) Turner's Act]. Where at a trial in a Court of oyer and terminer, gaol delivery, or quarter sessions, any question of law arises on motion in arrest of judgment (or even independently of such motion), which
Clerk of the peace
Clerk of the peace. His duties are to officiate at sessions of the peace, to prepare indictments, and to record the proceedings of the justices, and to perform a
Calendar of prisoners
prisoners, a list of all the prisoners' names in custody in any prison for trial at assizes or sessions, to be delivered by the gaoler of the prison to the judges of assize and justices in quarter
Open Court
1848, s. 12], but not so the place where they commit a prisoner for trial at assizes or sessions (Indictable Offences Act, 1848, s. 19). Whether a coroner's court is an open Court is a matter of
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