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A criminal defendant may not be tried twice for a crime when the defendant's life and liberty were in jeopardy and the defendant could have been convicted at that first trial. A prosecutor may not have a second bite at an apple where the first attempt to convict a criminal defendant failed through no fault of the defendant. … [Read more...] about DOUBLE JEOPARDY

practice. In cases where a statute gives a party double or treble damages, the jury are to find single damages, and the court to enhance them, according to the statute Bro. Ab. Damages, pl. 70; 2 Inst. 416; 1 Wils. 126; 1 Mass. 155. In Sayer on Damages, p. 244, it is said, the jury may assess the statute damages and it would seem from some of the modern cases, that either the … [Read more...] about DOUBLE OR TREBLE DAMAGES

See DOMESDAY-BOOK. … [Read more...] about DOOMSDAY-BOOK

Span. law. The property which the wife gives to the husband on account of marriage. 2. It is divided into adventitia and profectitia; the former is the dote which the father or grandfather, or other of the ascendants in the direct paternal line, give of their own property to the husband; the latter (adventitia) is that property which the wife gives to the husband, or that which … [Read more...] about DOTE

The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house. 2. To authorize the breach of an outer door in order to serve process, the process must be of a criminal nature; and even then a demand of admittance must first have been refused. The outer door may also be broken open for the purpose of executing a writ of habere facias. 3. An outer door cannot in general be … [Read more...] about DOOR