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Exemplary damages
sculptor for libellously styling him an impostor, the jury awarded 5,000l. damages, and a rule for a new trial on the ground (amongst others) of excessive damages was discharged by the High Court. The Court of Appeal
Notes, Judge's
Notes, Judge's. a judge usually takes notes of the viva voce evidence given during the trial of an action, and these are in practice always referred to on appeal, although they cannot be obtained
Non-direction
on the part of a judge to enforce a necessary point of law upon a jury. See NEW TRIAL; and see (English) Jud. Act, 1875, s. 22, which preserves the right of any party to have the
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Court thereon; and the summing-up of the judge, finding of the jury, and judgment of the Court. No prosecution under this Act may be commenced without the sanction of the Attorney-general. Libel.--Under the (English) Libel Act, 1843
Misdirection
an error in law made by a judge in charging a jury. See R.S.C. Ord. XXXIX., and NEW TRIAL. --is something which a judge in his charge tells the jury and is wrong or in a wrong
Mint-mark
of gold and silver, so that they may know which moneys were of their own making'; after every trial of the pyx, having proved their moneys to be lawful, they are entitled to their quietus under the
Increase, affidavit of
'Of the costs of the pleadings, and the office fees of the proceed-ings, in the cause down to trial, the record will, in general, sufficiently inform the taxing-master; but the amount of the costs of the trial,
Material witness
witness is so essential or not would depend on whether he could speak to any part of the prosecution case or whether the evidence led disclosed that he was so situated that he would have been able
Malice
Emperor, AIR 1930 Lah 266. Malice has been said to mean any wrong or indirect motive but a prosecution is not malicious merely because it is inspired by anger. However, wrongheaded a prosecutor may be, if he
Larrison rule
Larrison rule, means the doctrine that a defendant may be entitled to a new trial on the basis of newly discovered evidence of false testimony by a government witness if the jury might
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