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WRIT ERROR [2 records]

Record 1 2012-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
CONT

Bail in error were sureties whom a party prosecuting a writ of error... was required to find, and who undertook that the plaintiff in error should prosecute his writ of error with effect, and that in case the plaintiff failed to do so, or the judgment in the court below was affirmed, he should pay all the debt, damages and costs adjudged upon the former judgment, and all costs and damages to be awarded by reason of the delay of execution on such former judgment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
OBS

Ce type de cautionnement se rapporte à une ancienne action en common law introduite par voie de bref d'erreur («writ of error»).

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Legal Actions
  • Penal Law
DEF

A written denial of the errors alleged in an assignment in a criminal case.

CONT

No assignment of error, or joinder in error, shall be necessary upon any appeal or writ of error, in a criminal case, issued or taken pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this chapter, but the court shall proceed upon the return thereof without delay, and render judgment upon the record before them.

OBS

Error. A mistake in a court proceeding concerning a matter of law or fact, which might provide a ground for a review of the judgment rendered in the proceeding.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Actions en justice
  • Droit pénal

Spanish

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