 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1880 - 862 pages
...By Master of Crown Office — Private Prompting — Stat. Will. & M. — Also, at the common law, " the king's coroner and attorney in the Court of King's...Bench, usually called the master of the crown office," may file a criminal information.6 He does it only on the prompting of some private prosecutor ; or,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1164 pages
...own Immediate officer, the Attorney General ; secondly, those in which, though the King is the common prosecutor, yet It Is at the relation of some private person or the common informer, and they are filed by the King's coroner and attorney Jn the Court of King's Bench,... | |
 | James Carter Harrison - Criminal law - 1885 - 268 pages
...officio by his own immediate officer, the attorney-general; secondly, those in which, though the Crown is the nominal prosecutor, yet it is at the relation of some private person or common informer; and these last are filed in the Queen's Bench by the Sovereign's coroner and attorney, usually called "... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 912 pages
...attorney-general ex o$tcio, _ upon his own discretion, without any leave of the court," or "by the king's crown or attorney in the court of king's bench," usually called...for this purpose the standing officer of the public. Neither of these methods of procedure now obtain in this State, if, indeed, they ever did, which seems... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...properly his own suits. and filed ex officia by his own immediate officer, the attorney-general; secondly, those in which, though the king is the nominal prosecutor, yet it ¡s at the relation of some private person or common informer; and they :ire filed by the king's coroner... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...properly his own suits, and filed ex officio by his own immediate officer, the attorney general; secondly, those in which, though the king is the nominal prosecutor,...of king's bench, usually called the master of the crown-office, who is for this purpose the standing officer of the public. The objects of the king's... | |
 | Ernest Bowen-Rowlands - Criminal procedure - 1904 - 484 pages
...properly his own suit, and filed ex ojicio by his own immediate officer, the AttorneyGeneral. (2.) Those in which, though the King is the nominal prosecutor,...Bench, usually called the Master of the Crown Office. " The object of the King's own prosecutions filed ex ojficio are properly such enormous misdemeanours... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1098 pages
...his own suits, and filed ел officia by his own immediato officer, the attorney general ; secondly, those in which, though the King is the nominal prosecutor,...King's bench, usually called the master of the Crown oflice, who is for this purpose the standing officer of the puhlic. The objects of the King's own prosecutions,... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Great Britain - 1907 - 712 pages
...informations filed ex offieio by the Attorney- or Solicitor- General, the real prosecutor in his own suits. They are filed by the King's Coroner and Attorney...Master of the Crown Office, who is for this purpose the servant of the public. In Chancery, too, similar suits were formerly instituted, but by Order 1, r.... | |
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The informations that are exhibited in the name of the king alone are also of two kinds: first, those which are truly and properly his own suits, and filed ex officio, by his own immediate officer, the attorney-general; secondly, those in which, though... 
