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    the law of indictments, which became the Indictments Act 1915. Coming into force on 1 April 1916, the Act established rules on how indictments are to be...
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  • 1998 (S.I. 1998/3045) and the Indictments (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2000 (S.I. 2000/3360). See the Indictments Act (Northern Ireland) 1945. In Scotland...
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  • repealed by the Indictments Act 1915. The following specimen count was contained in paragraph 13 of the Second Schedule to the Indictments Act 1915 before it...
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  • all indictments formerly concluded "against the peace of our Lord the King, his crown and dignity" before the passage of the Indictments Act 1915 and...
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  • Thumbnail for Forgery Act 1861
    of, and the Second Schedule to, the Indictments Act 1915. Section 43 – Description of instrument in indictments for engraving etc. This section was repealed...
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    to the Indictments Act 1915 before it was repealed. STATEMENT OF OFFENCE. First Count. Arson, contrary to section 2 of the Malicious Damage Act, 1861....
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  • formerly contained in paragraph 13 of the Second Schedule to the Indictments Act 1915 before it was repealed. STATEMENT OF OFFENCE. Conspiracy to defraud...
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    formerly contained in paragraph 26 of the Second Schedule to the Indictments Act 1915 before it was repealed. STATEMENT OF OFFENCE. First Count. Fraudulent...
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    Offences) Act 2001. The following specimen counts were formerly contained in paragraph 18 of the Second Schedule to the Indictments Act 1915 before it...
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  • Thumbnail for Criminal Law Act 1826
    Schedule 11 to, the Courts Act 1971. Sections 14 to 16 were repealed by section 9 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Indictments Act 1915. Section 17 was repealed...
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    complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1915. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments...
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  • and was particularly noted for his preparation of indictments—prior to the Indictments Act 1915 this was a highly specialised field. He disdained the...
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  • Thumbnail for Espionage Act of 1917
    Espionage Act law imposed much stiffer penalties than the 1911 law, including the death penalty. President Woodrow Wilson, in his December 7, 1915 State of...
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    National Assistance Act (Northern Ireland) 1948 (c. 13 (N.I.)) Criminal Appeal Act 1907 Indictments Act 1915 Pensions (Increase) Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo....
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    Mann Act. In 1915, the paper published an editorial pointing out how the act led to extortion. In 1916, it labeled the Mann Act "The Blackmail Act", arguing...
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    was charged in 1915 for her work The Woman Rebel. Sanger circulated this work through the U.S. postal service, violating the Comstock Act. On appeal, her...
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  • for example with the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1794 in Britain and the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act (1863) in the United States. The right to petition...
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  • Thumbnail for Springfield race riot of 1908
    property", brought 117 indictments against dozens of individuals. In late October, the grand jury brought an additional 32 indictments against mob participants...
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  • Thumbnail for Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet
    Crime and Security Act 2001). In November 2005, Pinochet was deemed fit to stand trial by the Chilean Supreme Court and was indicted and put under house...
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  • A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder, writ of attainder, or bill of penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group...
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  • Thumbnail for Crime and Disorder Act 1998
    The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act was published on 2 December 1997 and received royal...
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  • Burdick v. United States (category 1915 in United States case law)
    offenders or even indicted offenders. List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 236 Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79, 89-90 (1915) (internal quotation...
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    Edition. 1915. Henry Burton Buckley, Baron Wrenbury. The Law and Practice under the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, and the Limited Partnerships Act, 1907...
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    Trading with the Enemy Act 1914 (Act 9). 1914. Enemy Contracts Annulment Act 1915 (Act 11). 1915. Income Tax Act 1915 (Act 41). 1915. Serle, Geoffrey (1993)...
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  • Thumbnail for Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders
    support their struggle against the obnoxious Smith Act, as well as against the indictments under that act". Before the trial began, supporters of the defendants...
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  • Thumbnail for Joe Biden
    effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act. He also oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings...
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  • Acts, with the Forms of Indictments, Etc., and the Evidence Necessary to Support Them Peel's Acts, with the Forms of Indictments, Etc., and the Evidence...
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    SS Eastland (category Maritime incidents in 1915)
    to a picnic in Michigan City, Indiana. The federal Seamen's Act had been passed in 1915 following the RMS Titanic disaster three years earlier. The law...
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  • consider felony indictments presented by a local prosecutor under state laws. On July 24, Brown stated that he felt certain state indictments for additional...
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  • Thumbnail for Fraud Act 2006
    or a fine or imprisonment for up to ten years on conviction on indictment. This Act largely replaces the laws relating to obtaining property by deception...
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