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TRIALS |
Court cases |
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LAWSUITS |
Statute is appropriate for court cases |
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MOOTMAN |
One who argued moot cases in the inns of court. |
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BOLTING |
A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in
the Inns of Court. |
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INDICAVIT |
A writ of prohibition against proceeding in the
spiritual court in certain cases, when the suit belongs to the
common-law courts. |
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CROWN OFFICE |
The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's
Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes
cognizance of all criminal cases. |
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PENITENTIARY |
An office of the papal court which examines cases of
conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers
decisions, dispensations,... |
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VEST |
...put in
possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before
the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases ... |
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INJUNCTION |
A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and,
insome cases, under statutes, by a court of law,whereby a party is
required to do or to r... |
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EMPOWER |
To give authority to; to delegate power to; to
commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the
Supreme Court is empowered to ... |
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SENTENCE |
In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court
pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a
judgment passed on a crimin... |
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RECEIVER |
A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive,
and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of
litigation, pending t... |
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STAR-CHAMBER |
An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in
certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a
jury. It consisted of ... |