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Attachment
person guilty of a contempt, who is punishable in a summary manner. Contempts may be thus classed. (1) Disobedience to the … [Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, (15 of 2003), s. 2(d)] A process from a Court of Record, awarded by the judges at
verdict
also judgment notwithstanding the verdict at judgment NOTE: Motions for summary judgment, a directed verdict, or for judgment notwithstanding the verdict … jury is finished with deliberations may interfere with the deliberative process; having a jury achieve unanimity on a higher charge first
Affidavit
is submitted by affidavit, esp., in pre-trial matters such as summary-judgment motions, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 58. Any affidavit … for attachments, certiorari, criminal information, mandamus, quo warranto, and other processes are usually made on affidavit (see, e.g., r. 53 of
Bill of Exchange
promissory notes was much simplified and shortened by the (English) Summary Procedure on Bills of Exchange Act, 1855 (18 & 19 … conveying money out of the realm though not as a process in use among English merchants. The earliest English case on
Distress
of the peace for the recovery of fines due on summary convictions. A distress may be made of common right for … districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer
King's Bench
it protected the liberty of the subject by speedy and summary interposition. It took cognizance both of criminal and civil causes: … the King's person wherever he went, for which reason all process issuing out of this Court in the King's name was
Magna Carta
where otherwise provided by the particular statute) by the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 43), and … creditors, and to recover by a very prompt and efficacious process, because thesaurus regis est pacis vinculum et bellorum nervi (the
Original Writ or Original
of the county where the injury was committed, containing a summary statement of the cause of complaint, andrequiring him to command … real action at Common Law. It is also applied to processes for some other purposes. It was a mandatory letter issuing
Rescue
Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 30), gives a summary remedy for pound breach and rescue in certain cases after … law, a distress taken, or a person arrested by the process or course of law (Co. Litt. 160 b). Rescue of
Scire facias for the Crown
Scire facias for the Crown. The summary proceed-ing by extent is only resorted to when a Crown … appears by record to be owing to the Crown, the process for the Crown is a writ of sci. fa. quae
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