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Remanet
remainder or remant, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1296. Remanet, the name given to a cause the trial of which has been postponed from one sittings to another. A new notice of trial does not seem
De bene esse
in modern times the term is chiefly used in reference to an examination, out of Court and before trial, of witnesses who are old, dangerously ill, or about to leave the country, on the terms that if
Weight of evidence
one side over that for the other as calls for a verdict for the first. When a new trial is asked for on the ground that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence, the judge
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Under the provisions hereinbefore contained
hereinbefore contained, means if the magistrate comes to the conclusion that the accused ought to be committee for trial, he shall commit in accordance with the provisions contained in the earlier part of the Code, Chhadanilal Jain
Tried
used in any limited sense and the s. is wide enough to cover every kind of inquiry and trial, and applicable to all cases which are capable of terminating either in a discharge or in an acquittal
Tort
Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort:
Surprise
believe that this evidence, if foreseen, might have been rebutted, contradicted, or explained, the Court grants a new trial, on such conditions as to costs as seems fit. See also NONSUIT and TRIAL.
Surety bond
the purpose of ensuring the presence of the accused concerned in Court in which he is standing his trial for a criminal offence at the hearing of the case. But for the execution of such a bond,
Special jury
Special Jury.--The party upon whose application the special jury is truck bears all the expenses occasioned at the trial of the cause by the special jury, and is not allowed any more costs than for a common
Sanction and direction
but there is this essential difference that in the one case there is a legal impediment to the prosecution if there be no sanction, and in the other case, there is a positive order that the prosecution
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