 | Henry Coleman Folkard - Libel and slander - 1908 - 752 pages
...Majesty's own suits; and filed classes. ex officio by his own immediate officer, the Attorney-General. 2. Those in which, though the King is the nominal prosecutor ; yet it is at the relation of some public or private person, termed " the relator." These are filed by the King's Coroner and Attorney,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1290 pages
...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...for this purpose the standing officer of the public. In the reign of Henry VII, the remedy by information, exhibited by leave of the court by the Master... | |
 | Criminal law - 1913 - 580 pages
...properly his own suit, and filed ex officio by his own immediate officer, the Attorney-General. (6) Those in which, though the King is the nominal prosecutor,...Bench, usually called the Master of the Crown Office. A "criminal information" must be distinguished fyom an "information" laid under Summary Jurisdiction... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal procedure - 1913 - 856 pages
...serious nature."99 Also, — § 143. By Master of Crown Office — (How prompted). — 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.1 He does it only on the prompting of some private prosecutor; or,... | |
 | Walter A. Shumaker, George Foster Longsdorf - Law - 1922 - 1160 pages
...properly his own suits, and filed ex officio by his own officer, the Attorney-General; and secondly, those in which, though the King is the nominal prosecutor,...relation of some private person or common informer. 12 Conn. 452. Criminal informations are analogous to declarations for the redress of a personal injury,... | |
 | Bar associations - 1923 - 920 pages
...properly his own suits, and filed ex officio by his own immediate officer, the AttorneyGeneral : secondly, those in which, though the King is the nominal prosecutor,...of some private person or common informer; and they aro filed by the King's coroner and attorney in the Court of King's Bench, usually called the Master... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1926 - 498 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,...this purpose the standing officer of the public."' It is with the informations falling under this third head that I am dealing here. But since this classification... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1926 - 514 pages
...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,...this purpose the standing officer of the public." ' It is with the informations falling under this third head that I am dealing here. But since this... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1160 pages
..."filed by the attorney general ex ofñclo upon bis own discretion without any leave of the court," or "by the king's coroner and attorney In the court of...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... | |
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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... 
