Cyclopædia
Assuming inquest is required, the following 5 results were found.
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ARRESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARREST
should be stayed, though there be a Verdict in the Cause. See JUDGMENT and VERDICT. To plead in Arrest of taking the Inquest, is to show Cause why an Inquest should not be taken. See INQUEST. The Word Arrest, is originally French, and is used by them...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARRAYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ARRAY
in Law,the ranking or ordering a Jury or Inquest of Men impaneled on any Cause. See JURY, INQUEST, etc. The Word may be derived either from the obsolete French Array, Order, or from Raye, a Line—Hence the Verb, to Array a Panel, Ann. 3 Hen. V. etc. that...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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APPEALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPEAL
wherein is a solemn Discourse both of the Effects of this Appeal, viz. the Order of the Combat, and of the Trial by Inquest; which, by our Law, is in the choice of the Defendant. See TRIAL, COMBAT, INQUEST, etc. Appeal of Mayhem, is an accusing of one...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ATTAINDERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTAINDER
COMBAT, DUEL, etc. Attainder by Verdict, is when the prisoner at the bar answering not guilty to the indictment, hath an inquest of life and death passed on him, and is by the verdict of the jury pronounced, guilty. See INQUEST. Attainder by Process,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ANCIENT DEMESNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCIENT%20DEMESNE
Tenure. 2. They are free from Toll for all things relating to their Livelihood and Husbandry; nor can be impaneled on any Inquest. These Tenants held originally by plowing the King's Land, plashing his Hedges, and the like Services, for the maintenance...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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