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Legal Terms In General Use
Term | Definition |
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Accused | A person charged in an indictable case. |
Alias | Indicates another name for a person. |
Alibi | (Literally indicates "Elsewhere") A defence or explanation that the person suspected of or charged with a crime, could not have committed it because he\she was elsewhere at the material time. |
Aminus Furandi | The intention of stealing. |
Auterfois Acquit | A special plea to a charge that the person charged has been previously acquitted of the offence with which he is now charged. |
Auterfois Convict | A special plea to a charge that the person charged has been previously convicted of the offence with which he is now charged. |
Aiders & Abettors | Persons who are present at the commission of a crime and aids & abet its commission. |
Accomplice | A person who takes part with another in the commission of a crime. |
Ante | Before. |
Bona Fide | In good faith. Honestly. |
Contra | Against. |
Certiorari | 'To be informed of.' Refers to the order a court issues so that it can review the decision and proceedings in a lower court and determine whether there were any irregularities. When such an order is made it is said that the court has granted certiorari. |
Corpus Delicti | The facts, which constitute an offence. |
Conspiracy | An agreement between two or more persons to do an unlawful act\acts, or to do a lawful act\acts by unlawful means. |
Coram | In the presence of. |
Counselors & Procurers | Persons who, though at the time a crime was committed, counseled, procured or commanded other persons to commit a crime. (Such persons may be indicted and tried together with, and prosecuted in the same manner as the persons who committed the crime. |
De Novo | Anew. To start a case over, again. |
Dictum, Dicta | A saying, sayings. |
Doli Incapax | Incapable of committing a crime. (A child under the age of 8 years). |
Embracery | An attempt to corrupt a member or members of a jury. |