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  • ASYLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASYLUM

    or Asylum, a Sanctuary; or Place of Refuge and Protection, where a Criminal who shelters himself is deemed inviolable, and not to be touched by any Officer of Justice. See REFUGE, PRIVILEGE, etc. The Word Asylum is Latin: Servius derives it from the...

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

  • ANTEJURAMENTUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTEJURAMENTUM

    and Accused were obliged to make before any Trial or Purgation. The Accuser was to swear that he would prosecute the Criminal; and the Accused was to make Oath on the very Day that he was to undergo the Ordeal, etc., that he was innocent of the Fact of...

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

  • ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS

    receive abundance of Grace and of the Gift of Righteousness, shall reign in Life by one, Jesus Christ." For, if all become criminal by one, then are Children criminal. Consequently, if all are justified by one, then are Children justified. But this...

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

  • ACCUSATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCUSATION

    ACCUSATION, Accusatio, in the Civil Law, the initiating a criminal Action against any one, either in one's own Name, or that of the Publick. See ACTION, and CRIMINAL. By the Roman Law, there was no publick Accuser for publick Crimes; every private...

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Vice-ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/Vice-ADMIRAL

    Civil Law; because the sea is without the limits of the Common Law, and under the Admiral's jurisdiction.See CIVIL LAW. In criminal affairs, which ordinarily relate to piracy, the proceedings in this court were anciently likewise by information and...

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

  • 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

  • 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...

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

  • ABSOLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABSOLUTION

    ; as Absolutio à sævis, which is necessary where a Person has been concern'd in seeing Sentence of Death executed on a Criminal, or has any other way disqualisy'd himself for the holding of a Benefice. Absolutio ad Cautelam, is that granted to a Person...

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • AREOPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AREOPAGUS

    naked terms; without exordium, epilogue, passions, etc. See EXORDIUM, EPILOGUE, etc. At first they only took cognizance of criminal causes, but in course of time their jurisdiction became of greater extent. Mr. Spon, who examined the antiquities ofthat...

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

  • Lawhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law

    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, Polygamy,...

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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

  • ANATHEMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANATHEMA

    or other qualified Person; and differs from a simple Excommunication in this, that an Excommunication only prohibits the Criminal from entering within the Church, or holding Communion with the Faithful; whereas an Anathema cuts him off from the Body,...

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

  • AFFINITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFINITY

    Impediment of Marriage, does not only follow an Affinity contracted by lawful Matrimony, but also that contracted by a criminal Commerce; with this difference, that this last does not extend beyond the second Generation; whereas the other, as has been...

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

  • ADULTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERY

    In Poland, before Christianity was established, they punished adultery and fornication in a very particular manner: The criminal they carried into the market-place, and there fastened him by the testicles with a nail; laying a razor within his reach,...

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

  • ATTORNEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTORNEY

    come Warrants for making out Patents, Pardons, etc. He is at the Head of managing all Law-Affairs of the Crown, either in criminal Prosecutions or otherwise; especially in Matters of Treason, Sedition, etc. In all Courts he pleads within the Bar; but...

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

  • 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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