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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

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    hitherto spoke of—Our Assize may be defined a Court, Place, or Time where, and when Writs and Processes, either civil or criminal, or both, are considered, dispatched, decided, etc. by Judges and Jury. See PROCESS, COURT, DAY, JURY, &c. In this Sense,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APPEALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPEAL

    in Common Law in the same sense as Accusatio among the Civilians. See ACCUSATION. For, as in the Civil Law, Cognizance of criminal Cases is taken either upon Inquisition, Accusation, or Denunciation; so in ours it is taken either upon Indictment or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • 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

  • Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A

    it, I antiquate it ; or I like the antient Law, and desire no Innovation. See SUFFRAGE, CENTURY, &c. In the Trials of Criminal Causes, the same Letter A denoted Absolution : whence Cicero, pro Milone, calls A, Littera salutaris, a Saving Letter. Three...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Grammar

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Heir Loom. Teslament, Executor, Administrator, Ordinary. Judgment, Fieri sacias, &c.---- 3°, Wrongs or Injuries ; either Criminal, and'to Persons, as Treason, Parricide, Murder, Felony, Assault, Rape, Assassin. Adultery, Fornication, Defloration,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction
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