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Prosecution :: Prosecution (n.) The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information..

Prosecutable :: Prosecutable (a.) Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

Nolle Prosequi :: Nolle prosequi () Will not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants..

Joinder :: Joinder (v. t.) A joining of causes of action or defense in civil suits or criminal prosecutions.

Pursuant :: Pursuant (a.) Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of..

Prosecute :: Prosecute (v. i.) To institute and carry on a legal prosecution; as, to prosecute for public offenses..

Labor :: Labor (n.) To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.

Pursuit :: Pursuit (v. t.) The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy..

Prosecution :: Prosecution (n.) The party by whom criminal proceedings are instituted.

Prevaricator :: Prevaricator (n.) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.

Suit :: Suit (n.) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery..

Proceeding :: Proceeding (n.) The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law.

Persecution :: Persecution (n.) A carrying on; prosecution.

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To allow the prosecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit..

Pursuit :: Pursuit (v. t.) Prosecution.

Perseverance :: Perseverance (n.) The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun..

Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony..

Malefactor :: Malefactor (n.) An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.

Nolo Contendere :: Nolo contendere () A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty..

Lawyer :: Lawyer (n.) One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates..

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