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Certiorari
that justice maybe done. Certiorari lies to remove into the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division, which, superseding the King's bench, is the sovereign Court of justice in criminal causes, all indictments, coroners' inquisitions, summary convictions … to judges or officers of inferior Courts, commanding them to certify or to return the records of a cause depending before them, to the end that justice maybe done. Certiorari lies to remove into the High Court
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merger
or interest into a greater one held by the same person compare confusion 2 : the incorporation and superseding of one contract by another 3 a : the treatment (as by statute) of two offenses deriving from … 4 : a doctrine in civil litigation: a judgment in favor of a plaintiff incorporates and supersedes the cause of action and any claims based on it and requires that further litigation in the case by the
Adultery
single adultery to distinguish it from the other, which has sometimes been called double. By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the Ecclesiastical Court) which would grant
merge
to unite, combine, or coalesce [ one corporation with another] 2 : to cause to be incorporated and superseded [one effect of a judgment is to therein the cause of action on which the action is brought
Consuetudo ex erta causa rationabili usitata privat communem legem
Consuetudo ex erta causa rationabili usitata privat communem legem. A custom based upon a certain reasonable cause supersedes the Common Law. See CUSTOM.
Supersedeas
desist'] a writ that lay in a gret many cases; and signified in general a command, on good cause shown, to stay some ordinary proceedings which ought otherwise to proceed, Fitz. N.B. 236. As to traverse and … Supersedeas, [Lat. 'you shall desist'] a writ that lay in a gret many cases; and signified in general a
writ
previous one alternative writ : a writ commanding one to perform a mandated act or else to show cause why the act need not be performed compare peremptory writ in this entry extraordinary writ : a writ … a suit and defendant before the court compare judicial writ in this entry NOTE: The original writ was superseded by the summons in 1873. peremptory writ : a writ (as of mandamus) that presents an absolute order
Challenge
against things or jurors. In civil actions, when a full jury appear, either party may challenge them for cause, as well the talesmen as the jurors originally returned. Challenges are of two kinds: (1) to the array; … have not been sworn, the court appoints two indifferent persons to try the, thence called triers, who are superseded as soon as two jurors are sworn; a principal challenge to the polls is tried by the court
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