RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTA
TION. Coming back to England before the term of punishment is determined.
Category: Criminal Law
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REUS
Lat. In the civil and canon law. The defendant in an action or suit.
Rev
0. &OC. Rep. Revenue, Civil, and Criminal Reporter, Bengal.
Rev. Cade Jowa 1880, § 3848
urder is the unlawfu) killing of a human being, in the peace of the state, by a person of sound memory and discretion, with malice aforethought, either exoe or implied. Code Ga. 1882, § 4220. The
RIEN. LL
Fr. Nothing. It appears in a few law French phrases. —Rien culp. In old pleading. Not guilty.
RIGHT
RIDING ARMED. In English law. The offense of riding or going armed with dan- l gerous or unusual weapons is a misdemeanor tending to disturb the public peace by terrifying the good people of the land. 4 Steph. nification. it answers to one meaning o...
Roanoke Gag Co
v. Roanoke, 88 Va. 810, 14 8. E, 665.—Palice supervision. In England, - subjection to police supervision is where a criminal offender is subjected to the obligation of - notifying the place of his residence and every .change of his residence to the...
ROBBERY. Robbery is the
felonious taking of personal property in the possession of another, from his person or immediate
ROD KNIGHTS
ROBBER. One who commits a robbery. The term is not in law synonymous with “thief,” but applies only to one who steals with force or open violence. See De Rothsehild v. Royal Mail. Steam Packet Co. 7
Roe v. Irwin, 32 Ga
39. Also the detainer of a man’s person by virtue of lawful process or authority; actual imprisonment. .In a sentence that the defendant “be in custody until,” ete, this term imports actual imprisonment. The duty of the sheriff under such a sen...
Ross, Conv
76; 2 Ross, Conv. 324.—Heritable jurisdictions. Grants of criminal jurisdiction formerly bestowed on great families in Scotland, to facilitate the administration of justice. Whishaw. Abolished in effect by St.
Russ. Crimes, 171; Steph
27; United States v. Hartwell, 26 Fed. Cas. 196; Albritton v.
Russ. Crimes, 421; Com
v. Webster, 5 Cush. (Mass.) 304. 52 Am. Dec. 711. When a person of sound mind and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, and under the king’s peace, with malice aforethought, either express or implied. 3 Inst. 47.
S. W. 334; Neall Vv. U. S., 118 Fed
706. 56 Cc. C. A. 81; Hotchkiss v. Mosher, 48 N. Y. 482.—Certificate of holder of attached roperty. A certificate required by statute, n some states, to be given by a third person who is found in possession of property subject to an attachment in t...
S., 57 Fed
490, 6 ©. C. A. 459; Atlanta v, Chattanooga Foundry & Pipe Works, 127 Fed. 23. 61 C. C. A. 387, 64 L. R. A. 721.—FPenal bill. An instrument formerly in use, by which a party bound himself to pay a certain sum or sums of money, or to do certain act...
SACRAMENTALES. LIL
Lat. In feudal law. Compurgators; persons who came to purge a defendant by their oath that they believed him innocent.
SACRILEGUS
Lat. In the civil and common law. <A sacrilegious person; one guilty of sacrilege.
Salat Ag has the custody of the privy signet
as well for the purpose of sealing his mas private letters. as also grants which pass his majesty’s hand by bill signed; there are four of these officers. Cowell.—Olerks of indictments. Officers attached to the central criminal court in England, ...
SANITY
DEM. An abbreviation for “‘demise;” c. g., Doe dem. Smith, Doe, on the demise of Smith. IRREVOCABLE. Which cannot be revoked or recalled. . MADE KNOWN. Where a writ of scire facias has been actually gerved upon a defendant, the proper return ...
SATISDATIO
Lat.- In the civil law. Security given by a party to an action, as by a defendant, to pay what might be adjudged against him. Inst. 4, 11; 3 Bl. Comm. 291.
SCIENTER
Lat. Knowingly. The term is used in pleading to signify an allegation (or that part of the declarution or indictment which contains it) setting out the defendant’s previous knowledge of the cause which led to the injury complained of, or rather his...
SCISSIO
Lat. In old English law. A cutting. Scissio auricularum, cropping of the ears. An old punishment. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38, y 10.
SECUNDUM
Secta est pugna civilis; sicut actores armantur actionibus, et, quasi, gladiis accinguntur, ita rei muniuntur exceptionibus, et defenduntur, quasi, clypeis. fiob. 20. A suit is a civil warfare; for as the plaintiffs are armed with actions, and, as it...
See ENCROACHMENT
‘ INCULPATE. To impute blame or guilt; to accuse; to involve in guilt or crime.
See INNS OF CHANCERY
BARO. An old law term signifying, originally, a “man,” whether slave or free. In later usage, a “freeman,” a “strong man,” a “good soldier,” a “baron;” also a “vassal.” or “feudal tenant or client,” and “husband,” the ...
See LETTERS OF SLAINS
SLANDERER. One who maliciously and without reason imputes a crime or fault to another of which he is innocent. See SLan-
SEISED IN DEMESNE
a precise and determinate signification, and “ew vt termini” implies the commission of fornication. An information for the crime of seduction need not charge the offense in any other words.
SEMPER PARATUS
Lat. Always ready. The name of a plea by which the defendant alleges that he has always been ready to perform what is demanded of him. 3 Bl. Comm. 303.
SENTENCE
tence is one which puts an end to the suit, and regards the principal matter in question. An interlocutory sentence determines only some incidental matter in the proceedings. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1260.
SEPARALITER
Lat. Separately. Used in indictments to indicate that two or more defendants were charged separately, and not jointly, with the commission of the