In such states prosecutions in behalf of the state are conducted by the state's attorney for each county.
Prosecutions at law are conducted in nearly the same manner in the different states.
An attorney, elected or appointed for that purpose, attends all courts in which persons are tried in the county for crimes committed therein, and conducts the prosecutions in the trial of the offenders.
Causes, actions, and suits, are words of similar meaning in law language, being generally used to signify prosecutions at law, or lawsuits.
Aided by them, besides the Agrarian and corn laws, he carried that also relative to criminal jurisdiction;--that in capital prosecutions the senate should have equal authority with the equestrian order.
For, as he could foresee nothing but the prosecutions of envy, and continual disputes with the tribunes, the trial being adjourned to a future day, he retired to the territory of Liternum, with a fixed determination not to attend the trial.
Amendment affirms that in 'all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury,' language broad enough to embrace all persons and cases.
There had been numerous prosecutions of people who, from true but not identical premisses, had deduced true conclusions, so that the possible legitimate forms of "implication" were reduced.
Now, though prosecutions have been almost discontinued, the few cases that have been heard before the ecclesiastical courts are all the same.
They were liable to vexatious prosecutions for such acts as inciting men to commit crime, ruining thoughtless youths, fomenting treason against the state, or committing impiety.
On the strength of this evidence prosecutions were instituted, and many persons were condemned and executed.
Though imprisonment for debt has been abolished, fraudulent bankrupts may be punished, and the conduct of prosecutions for offences arising out of any bankruptcy proceeding falls to the public prosecutor.
Several prosecutions were instituted in 1725, in order to prevent a shamefully indecent practice of the populace, which was the storming of hearses and tearing from them the various heraldic ornaments used at funerals.
This declaration was in part approved; but the audience required that all prosecutions against individuals, by the Managers, originating in this dispute, should be immediately discontinued.
The first permanent local board, made up of representatives of the various local bodies, was that of Liverpool, formed in 1848 to protect trade unionists from prosecutions for illegal conspiracy.
Under this act numerousprosecutions and convictions took place, and factory regulation began to become a reality.
Prosecutions under the combination laws were, however, frequent.
Agitation, publicity and prosecutions were maintained until the scandalous crib district of Los Angeles was absolutely annihilated.
In the prosecutions which I have officially conducted against this class of criminals the fact has developed that when caught they generally are willing to arrange to pay heavy fines.
Since the beginning of the recent prosecutions in Chicago a score of keepers, realizing their guilt and fearing prosecution, have fled the country and have not yet been apprehended.
Their horrible flesh market and slave pen is the red light district, where they are illegally exempted from the criminal prosecutions that their crimes deserve.
A salutary lesson has been taught the careless and the dishonest public servant in the great number of prosecutions and convictions of the last two years.
The very forbearance to press prosecutions was misinterpreted into a fear of urging the execution of the laws, and associations of men began to denounce threats against the officers employed.
Federal gun crimeprosecutions are up 16 percent since I took office.
In one of the most flagrant causes the court decided that the prosecution was barred by the statute which limits prosecutions for fraud to two years.
The prosecutions which have been successfully concluded and which are now pending testify to the effectiveness of the departmental work.
The exposures andprosecutions of official corruption in St. Louis, Mo.
The special investigation of the subject of naturalization under the direction of the Attorney-General, and the consequent prosecutions reveal a condition of affairs calling for the immediate attention of the Congress.
Second, provision should be made for relief of congestion in the Federal courts by modifying and simplifying the procedure for dealing with the large volume of petty prosecutions under various Federal acts.
To satisfy the complaints of the latter, prosecutions have been instituted for the violences committed upon them.
Repeated prosecutions under the law have not had the desired effect.
The proceeds of these prosecutions and settlements turned into the Treasury far exceed in amount the sums appropriated by Congress for this purpose.
It was declared illegal by Parliament, but vigorous prosecutions have failed to suppress it.
The society was broken up by criminal prosecutions in 1876.
Note: The penalties of præmunire were subsequently applied to many other offenses; but prosecutions upon a præmunire are at this day unheard of in the English courts.
Law) Defn: The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
The Sugar Trust proceedings, however, may be mentioned as showing just the kind of thing that was done and the kind of obstacle encountered and overcome in prosecutions of this character.
In the case of the chief offender, the American Sugar Refining Company (the Sugar Trust), criminal prosecutionswere carried on against every living man whose position was such that he would naturally know about the fraud.
There were important and successful land fraud prosecutions in several Western States.
Prosecutions increased, from the fact that associations were formed to resist the payment of taxes, in case ministers should attempt to rule without a chamber.
The law-officers were, in fact, compelled to give up the prosecutions in despair, and murder remained unavenged.
Finally, the ministry increased their unpopularity byprosecutions for libel arising out of the Catholic relief bill.
He had the hardihood to attempt prosecutions of the press, although by such means the French king had brought about his dethronement.
The press teemed with denouncements both of the men and their measures; and prosecutions for its bold sentiments became the order of the day.
They must see that it is time to rouse, when their own creatures dare to assume a power of stopping prosecutions by their vote, and consequently of resolving the law of the land into their will and pleasure.
On the 20th of May, Fox brought in a bill for empowering juries to try the question of law as well as fact, in prosecutions for libel.
In pursuance of the act of 1890, prosecutions have been instituted in the federal courts against a large number of "trusts," and some of them have been broken up, but the larger number have escaped.
The Constitution contains a number of provisions intended to protect accused persons against unauthorized prosecutions in the federal courts, as well as against arbitrary procedure in the course of the trial.
Unless some one has charge of them very different from Smith and his friends, the prosecutions might as well be abandoned.
It must here be repeated, that the great cause of the defect in the execution of the Laws against Coiners, is the want of a proper fund for Prosecutions and Rewards, and other expences for detecting Offenders.
But supposing that prosecutions for political writings were in any respect politic, useful, or wise, will they prevent their publication?
But keep the people excluded from their share in the representation, and pressed down by taxation, and millions ofprosecutions against libels will not save the country from sinking in ruin.
Gentlemen, I submit that it is within your province to take into consideration the nature and operation of those writings, which are called in prosecutions of this kind libels.
From them we learned that all hopes of criminal prosecutions were at an end.
From their own members they next extended their prosecutions to public officers.
All this time the High Commission Court kept pace with the Star Chamber in its prosecutions and arbitrary fines, under pretence of protecting public morals.
Prosecutions for high treason and menaces of martial law induced many of the more timid abbots and priors to resign their trusts into the hands of the king and his heirs for ever.
In these prosecutions Coke was extremely active, for he saw a prospect of taking a signal revenge on Bacon, who had not only supplanted him, but insulted him in his fall.
The prosecutions were carried on by the Attorney and Solicitor-General, on the part of the Crown, in a dignified spirit at once of forbearance and determination, and with a just discrimination between the degree of culpability disclosed.
Can any Englishman, however fervent his faith in liberty, regret that some at least of these papers have now disappeared either as the result of prosecutions under the Indian Criminal Code or from the operation of the new Press Law?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prosecutions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
