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245.—8Straw bail. Nominal or worthless bail. Irresponsible persons, or men of no property, who make a practice of going bail for any one who will pay them a fee therefor. 16. He also has similar duties under the bankruptcy jurisdiction of the coun...
2, pts. 1, 2; Strickland v. Maddox, 4 Ga. 394. The term “collateral” is also applied in England to an issue raised upon a plea of diversity of person, pleaded by a criminal who has been tried and convicted, in bar of execution, viz., that he is n...
the offense called “preAemunire” being the infroduction of a foreign power into the kingdom, and creating imperium in imperio, by paying that obedience to papal process which constitutionally belonged to the king alone. The penalties of premunire...
Lat. In pleading. The commencement of a replication to a plea in bar, by which the plaintiff “says that, by reason of anything in the said plea alleged, he ought not to be barred from having and maintaining ‘his aforesaid action against him, the ...
PRENDER DE BARON. L Fr. In old English law. A taking of husband; marriage. An exception or plea which might be used to disable a woman from pursuing an appeal of murder against the killer of her former husband. Staundef. P. C. lib. 8, c. 59. :
A presentment is an informal statement in writing, by the grand jury, representing to the court that a public offense has been committed which is triable in the county, and that there is reasonable ground for believing that a particular individual na...
statute 34 & 35 Vict. c. 112, passed for the purpose of securing a better supervision over habitual criminals. This act provides that a person who is for a second time convicted of crime may, on his second conviction. be subjected to police supervisi...
of the punishment awarded him, - Penalties © are imposed .on lodging-house -keepers, etc., for harboring thieves or reputed thieves. There are: also provisions relating to receivers of stolen property, and dealers in old metals who purchase the same...
Lat. In the canon law. The first decree; a preliminary decree granted on the non-appearance of a defendant, by which the plaintiff was put in possession of his goods, or of the thing itself which was demanded. Gilb. Forum Rom. 82, 83.
Lat. Principal; a principal debtor; a principal in a crime.
oned debter, who is out on bonds, may go at will. See GaoL.—Prison-break &. The common-law offense of one who, being lawfully in custody, escapes from the place where he is confined, by the employment of force and violence. is off is to be distingu...
UTE DE. The English statute 1 Kdw. II.
such facts and circumstances as would: excite the belief in a reasonable mind, acting on the facts within the knowledge of the A er cutor, that the person charged was guilty of the crime for which he was prosecuted. Wheeler v. Nesbitt, 24 How. 16 L. ...
1903, § 1833. Evidence which, standing alone and unexplained, would maintain the proposition and warrant the conclusion to support which it is introduced. Emmons v. Bank 97 Mass. 230. An inference or presumption of law, affirmative or negative of a ...
court. -And when actions were commenced, by original writ, instead of, as at present, by writ of summons, the method of compelling the defendant to appear was by what was termed “original process,” being founded an the original writ, and so calle...
PERIAL. In French law. An officer of the imperial court, who either personally or by his deputy prosecutes every one who is accused of a crime according to the forms of French law. His functions appear to be confined to preparing the case for trial a...
initiation of all criminal proceedings. In the exercise of his office (which appears to include the apprehension of offenders) he is entitled to call to his assistance the public force, (posse comitatus ;) and the officers of police are auxillary to ...
iIn the civil law. Among the Romans, a man was said to be “proscribed” when a reward was offered for his head; but the term was more usually applied to those who were sentenced to some punishment which carried with it the consequences of civil de...
name of the public officer (in several states) who is appointed in each judicial district, circuit, or county, to conduct criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state or people.
of the parties upon a judge who would not otherwise be competent.
PROSECUTOR. In practice. He who prosecutes another for a.crime in the name of the government. SPEAKER. This is the official designation of the president or chairman of certain legislative bodies, particularly of the house of representatives in the c...
1.A formal declaration made by a person interested or concerned in some act about to be done, or already performed, and in relation thereto, whereby he expresses his dissent or disapproval, or affirms the act to be done against his will or conviction...
Lat. In Roman law. The chief officer of the night watch. His jurisdiction extended to certain offenses affecting the public peace, and even to larcenies; but he could inflict only slight: punishments. Colg. Rom. Civil Law, § 2395.:
Lat. In practice. An original writ, drawn up in the alternative, commanding the defendant to do the thing required, or show the reason why he had not done it. 3 Bl. Comm. 274.
Lat. In Roman law. The name of an officer who, from the time of Augustus, had the superintendence of the city and its police, with jurisdiction extending one hundred miles from the city, and power to decide both civil and criminal cases. As he was co...
WORK AND LABOR. The name of one af the common counts in actions of assumpstt, being for work and labor done and materlals furnished by the plaintiff for the defendant.
Fr. Paternal power. In the French law, the male parent has the following rights over the person of his child: (1) If child is under sixteen years of age, he may procure him to be imprisoned for one month or under. (2) If child is over sixteen and und...
Lat. In Roman law. Informers who, if their information were followed by conviction, had the fourth part of the confiscated goods for their trouble.
Lat. In the civil law. A pleading on the part of a defendant, corresponding to the rebutter at common law. The third pleading on the part of the defendant. Inst. 4, 14,3; 8 BL Comm. 310. .
long as he shall behave himself well; during good behavior; a clause frequent in letters patent or grants of certain offices, to secure them so long as the persons to whom they are granted shall not be guilty of abusing them, the opposite clause bein...