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Originalia

in the Exchequer out of the Chancery, distinguished from recorda, which contain the judgments and pleadings in actions tried before the barons.

Peer

Charta, which applies to every subject of the realm, a peer, indicted for treason or felony, must be tried by his peers, but when an indictment for a felony is found against a peer it is removable

Prerogative of mercy

to the Home Secretary by the judges who formed the Special Commission before whom Frost and others were tried for high treason in 1839, see Queen v. Frost, (1839) 4 St Tr (NS) 85 (479, 480). The

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Peeress

20 Hen. 6, c. 9, declares that peeresses, either in their own right or by marriage, shall be tried before the same judicature as peers of the realm.

Poor Prisoners, Defence of

him for trial or of the judge or chairman of the court before which he is to be tried, at any time after reading the depositions. The certificate is grantable only 'when it appears to the certifying

Nisi prius record

written on parchment and delivered to the officer of the Court in which the cause was to be tried. Any variance between the record and the issue should have been objected to at the time of trial,

Porteous mob

the crowd who had assembled to witness the spectacle, and several persons were killed. For this he was tried and sentenced to death, but on the eve of his execution he was respited by orders from London.

Non bis in idem

Non bis in idem (not twice tried for the same offence).

Manner or mainour

hands; that is, in flagrante delicto. In such a case he might be brought into Court, arraigned and tried, without indictment, 4 Bl. Com. 308.

Nisi prius

novel disseisin and mort-ancestor (which were the most common remedies of that day) should thenceforward instead of being tried at Westminster, in the superior Court, be taken in their proper counties, and for this purpose justices were

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