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Judgment

By the (English) C.L.P. Act,1852, s. 120, a plaintiff or defendant having obtained a verdict in a cause tried out of term, was entitled to issue execution in fourteen days, unless the judge who tried the cause,

Costs

whether founded on contract or tort, the High Court or a judge thereof (or when the matter is tried before a referee or officer of the Supreme Court, that referee or officer) if satisfied:' (a) that there

Assize, or assise

in which issue has been joined in one of the Divisions of the High Court of Justice, are tried on circuit by a jury of twelve men of the county in which the venue is laid. See

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Cognizance

Cognizance (Judicial), knowledge upon which a judge is bound to act without having it proved in evidence: as the public statutes of the realm, the ancient history of the realm, the order and course of proceedings...

Explosive

Explosive, means gunpowder, introglycerine, nitroglycol, gun-cotton, di-nitro-toluene, tri-nitro-toluene, picric acid, di-nitro-phenol, tri-nitro-resorcinol (styphnic acid), cyclo-trimethylene-tri-nitramine, penta-erythritol-tetranitrate, tetryl, nitro-guanidine, lead azide, lead styphynte, fulminate of mercury or any other metal, diazo-di-nitro-phenol, coloured fires or any other substance...

Court of competent jurisdiction

Court of competent jurisdiction, the expression 'a Court of competent jurisdiction' envisaged in s. 465 is to denote a validity constituted Court conferred with jurisdiction to try the offence or offences. Such a Court will not...

Proviso, Trial by

ought to have done so, the defendant might, under the practice before the Judicature Acts, have the action tried by proviso; he might give the plaintiff notice of trial, make up the record, carry it down and

Palmer's Act

a person accused of a crime committed out of the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court to be tried in that Court, in order to give him a trial free from local prejudice. So called from the

Ancient demesne

in the Exchequer called Domesday Book, and, therefore, whether lands are ancient demesne or not, is to be tried only by this book, called in consequence Liber Judicatorius; but the question must be tried by a jury

Central Criminal Court

the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court upon removal by certiorari into the King's Bench Division, to be tried at the Central Criminal Court, if it appears that it is expedient that a trial there would be

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