Search results for: “Criminal law”
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Court Of Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland)
The Court of Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Name The Court of Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) is the standarized name of one of the UK Historic Courts (see the entries in this legal Encyclopedia about court rules and procedural law for more information on some aspects of the Court of […]
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Court of Criminal Appeal
Definition of Court of Criminal Appeal In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Court of Criminal Appeal : A court created by the Criminal Appeal Act 1907 to take over the jurisdiction formerly exercised by the *Court for Consideration of Crown Cases Reserved. […]
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Outlawry
English Law: Outlawry in the Past The act of being put out of the protection of the law by process regularly sued out against a person who is in contempt in refusing to become amallow to the court having jurisdiction. There is further information on this topic in this legal reference. The […]
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Outlawry
English Law: Outlawry in the Past The act of being put out of the protection of the law by process regularly sued out against a person who is in contempt in refusing to become amallow to the court having jurisdiction. There is further information on this topic in this legal reference. The […]
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USA: An Overview of the Law 2, Chapter 3
USA: An Overview of the Law 2, Chapter 3 2 The Trial Most lawsuits never go to trial. the parties settle their dispute or simply drop the case. often, the outcome of a pretrial motion resolves the case or encourages one of the parties to settle. i f a case does go to trial, it’s…
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Case Law Topics
Case Law Topics The Lawi project provide an index of case law useful to those involved with the law of the United Kingdom. It is a platform and legal research tool extensive, free and open. No part of the site is hidden. The Lawi Project does a lot of work to identify when a case…
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Crown Law
Meaning of Crown Law The following is an old definition of Crown Law [1]: Criminal law. Resources Notes and References Concept of Crown Law provided by the Anderson Dictionary of Law (1889) (Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims and […]
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Central Non Common Law Courts
(Source: the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) The Court of Chancery and Equity is the foremost example of a central, non common law court. Although the Chancery was essentially an administrative department, it also played a judicial role. As a court of equity, it could try […]
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Law
History of Law in Britain Roman law and English law, both widely influential, are characterized -in accordance to Bamber Gascoigne´ Encyclopedia of Britain about “law”- by very different approaches. In broad terms Roman law follows a coherent written code and a set of principles, while […]
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Criminal Procedure
History A system of procedure, with the judicial machinery required to work it, may be created either by the direct legislative action of the supreme power or by custom and the action of the courts. Both at Rome and in England it was through usage and by the courts themselves that the […]
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Anglo-Saxon Law
History of Anglo-Saxon Criminal Law The stage which the development of criminal law had reached in England by the reign of Edward the Confessor is thus described by Pollock and Maitland (Hist. Eng. Law, ii. 447): “On the eve of the Norman Conquest what we may call Anglo-Saxon law. the […]
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Game Laws
From the Encyclopedia Britannica (1911): Game Laws: This title in English law is applied to the statutes which regulate the right to pursue and take or kill certain kinds of wild animals (see above). The existence of these statutes is due to the rules of the common law as to the nature […]