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Amendment

statement of grounds of appeal to them from Courts of Summary Jurisdiction upon such terms as to costs and postponement as … be exercised to the prejudice of a party to the proceeding; apart from this, it is in general a mere matter

Appeal

by way of retrial (see s. 19 of the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, also Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act, 1933, and … PRIVY COUNCIL. An appeal is essentially continuation of the original proceedings and the provisions applied at the time of institution of

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

of criminal offences generally, except where they are punishable on summary conviction, in which cases the period is six months, by … ut sit finis litium, particular actions must be brought or proceedings taken. In the case of simple contract the remedy on

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Information

a person alleged to have committed an offence punishable on summary conviction must be laid within six months, and need not … a suit immediately concerned the crown or government alone, the proceeding was purely by way of infor-mation, but where it did

Adjournment

adjournment by justices on hearing charge of offence punishable on summary jurisdiction, see Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. … Adjournment of the House contemplates postponement of the sitting or proceedings of either House to reassemble on another specified date. During

Solicitor

as a solicitor and s. 46 for prosecuting in a summary way any person not having in force a practising certificate … carry on, solicit, or defend any action, suit or other proceeding' in any Court whatever (see (English) Solicitors Act, 1932, s.

County Courts

corpoation or company as therein mentioned, may apply in a summary way to any judge of the High Court or (at … of a sheriff, but was not a Court of Record. Proceedings were removable into a superior court by recordari facias loquelam,

Penalty

sum, also called a fine, recoverable in a Court of Summary Jurisdiction from a person infringing a statute. The words 'where … recovery of an amount as a penal measure in civil proceedings, or an exaction which is not compensatory in character, Jagjit

King's Bench

it protected the liberty of the subject by speedy and summary interposition. It took cognizance both of criminal and civil causes: … authority, and might either, by writ of certiorari, remove their proceedings to be determined here, or, by writ of prohibition, prohibit

Court

the Court of Appeal, the County Court, the Courts of Summary Jurisdiction, the Courts of Quarter Sessions, the Court of Arches, … Courts are either of record, where their acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled for a perpetual memorial and testimony, and they

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