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autrefois acquit
autrefois acquit [Anglo-French, formerly acquitted] : a defendant's plea stating that he or she has already been tried for and acquitted of the same offense
accusatorial
or being a form of criminal prosecution in which a person is accused of a crime and is tried in public by a judge who is not also the prosecutor compare adversary, inquisitorial ac·cus·a·to·ri·al·ly adv
Jedburgh Justice
Jedburgh Justice, otherwise called Jeddart Justice, that unjust procedure whereby a person is sentenced first and tried afterwards. Jedburgh is a Scots Border town in Roxburghshire, where frequent conflicts took place between English and Scots
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Averment
plaintiff (or defendant) is ready to verify.' Special were used where the matter pleaded was intended to be tried by record or by some other method than a jury. They were in the following forms:- 'And this
impeach
be impeached by the House of Representatives. (Members of Congress themselves are not removed by being impeached and tried, but rather are expelled by a two-thirds majority vote in the member's house.) The House draws up articles
Bar, plea in
age; that he is presently insane; that he has 'tholed an Assize,' i.e., that he has already been tried for the same offence; that the Court has no jurisdiction.
De medietate lingu'
De medietate lingu' (of a moiety of tongue), Jury. At Common Law an alien was entitled to be tried by a jury of which one-half consisted of aliens, and the (English) County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo.
Interest
Law Reform (Miscellaneous Pro-visions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), s. 3(1): 'In any proceedings tried in any court of record for the recovery of any debt or damages, the court may, if it
Birth, Concealing
the child to whom the charge relates. S. 60 of the Act provides, further, that if any woman tried for the murder of a child is acquitted thereof, she can lawfully be convicted of concealment of birth
Indictment
remedy by indictment unsupported by the preliminary commitment or admission to bail. Two prisoners separately indicted cannot be tried together, R. v. Crane, (1921) 2 AC 299; R. v. Dennis, 40 TLR 420. Indictment de felonia est
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