Cyclopædia
Assuming criminal is required, the following 30 results were found.
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AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION
a temporary Act, that their solemn affirmation should be accepted in all cases where an oath is by law required; except in criminal cases, upon juries, and in places of profit and trust under the government. In this form:"I, A.B. do declare, in the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ALCAIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCAID
the Governor of a City in Barbary. See ALCAIDE.The Jurisdiction of the Alcaid is sovereign, both in Civil and Criminal Concerns; and Fines and Punishments lie wholly at his Door. The Word is formed of the Particle Al, and the Verb kad, or akad, to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ARRAIGNhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ARRAIGN
to answer in form of law; which comes from the barbarous Latin adrationare, i.e., placitare—In which sense, to arraign a criminal, is fovere eum ad rationem. ARRAIGN
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ABETTERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABETTER
or ABETTOR, in Law, one who incites, incourages, or sets another on to perform something criminal ; or some way seconds and assists him in the Performance it self. Thus, they who procure others to sue out false Appeals of Felony, or Murder against Men,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ASSISTANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSISTANT
have their Courts of Assistants. See COMPANY, etc. Assistants are also those condemned to assist in the Execution of a Criminal. See ABSOLUTION. ASSISTANT
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AGGRESSORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGGRESSOR
of two contending parties, who makes the first assault, or attack; or who began the quarrel, encounter, or difference.—In criminal matters, it is first enquired who was the aggressor. See ATTACK, &c. AGGRESSOR
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ABOLITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABOLITION
is the abrogating or repealing it. See ABROGATION, REPEALING, STATUTE, &c. So, the Leave given by the King or Judge, to a criminal Accuser, to desist from further Prosecution of the Accused, is peculiarly called Abolition. The Word is form'd of the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ANDROLEPSYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANDROLEPSY
in Antiquity. If an Athenian were killed by a Citizen of some other Place and such City refused to deliver up the Criminal to Punishment; it was held lawful to take three Inhabitants of such City, and punish the Homicide in them. This the Greeks called...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ARS NOTORIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARS%20NOTORIA
affirm that it was by means hereof that Solomon, in one Night’s Time, acquired all his Knowledge.—Delrio shows it to be a criminal Curiosity, and founded on a secret Compact with the Devil. Disquisition Mag. p. 11. It was solemnly condemned by the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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APPREHENSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/APPREHENSION
in Law, signifies the seizing a Criminal, in order to bring him to Justice. APPREHENSION
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law