Court-of-cassation Sentence Examples

The Court of Cassation does not give the ultimate decision on a case; it pronounces, not on the question of fact, but on the legal principle at issue, or the competence of the court giving the original decision.

Appeal may be made from the sentences of the pretori to the tribunals, and from the tribunals to the courts of appeal; from the assize courts there is no appeal except on a point of form, which appeal goes to the court of cassation at Rome.

Even the first president of the Rome court of cassation only receives f6o0 a year.

The courts of appeal and cassation, too, often have more than they can do; in the year 1907 the court of cassation at Rome decided 948 appeals on points of law in civil cases, while no fewer than 460 remained to be decided.

The system established by the law of 1864 is remarkable in that it set up two wholly separate orders of tribunals, each having their own courts of appeal and coming in contact only in the senate, as the supreme court of cassation.

The court of cassation quashed the sentence, through defect of form, but sent Babeuf for a new trial before the Aisne tribunal, by which he was acquitted on the 18th of July.

He became a professor at the Turkish naval college; then entered the legal branch of the Turkish service, rising to the post of procureur imperial at the court of cassation.

In 1865 the court of cassation was founded.

A commercial tribunal, a court of appeal and the court of cassation are also in Belgrade.

The city is the seat of a court of cassation (for civil cases only), of a court of appeal, besides minor tribunals.

Dupuy proposed a law in the chamber transferring the decision to a full court of all the divisions of the court of cassation.

After its dissolution he became president of the court of cassation.

Appeal to the Rome court of cassation is admitted against all penal and civil sentences.

In 1838 he bought for 330,000 francs Desire Dalloz's place in the Court of Cassation.

He made a rich and romantic marriage in 1843, and in 1846 disposed of his charge at the Court of Cassation to give his time entirely to politics.

Napoleon named him inspector-general of the law schools, then judge of the court of cassation.

Civil cases, on the other hand, are tried in the first instance before one of the two aldermen, who act as deputies of the viguiers; the judgment of this court may be set aside by the civil judge of appeal, an officer nominated by France and the bishop of Urgel alternately; the final appeal is either to the Court of Cassation at Paris or to the Episcopal College at Urgel.

He was placed in the office of the conventionel Jean Mailhe, who was advocate before the council of state and the court of cassation and was proscribed at the second.

On his return he was appointed commissaire du roi in the court of cassation.

After the close of the National Assembly he was nominated one of the judges of the newly instituted court of cassation from October 1791 to September 1792.

The Roman court of cassation is the highest, and in both penal and civil matters has a right to decide questions of law and disputes between the lower judicial authorities, and is the only one which has jurisdiction in penal cases, while sharing with the others the right to revise civil cases.

It is the supreme court of cassation (see Judicial System, below); an audit office, a high court of justice for all political offences; one of its departments fulfils the functions of a heralds' college.

Subsequently, in pleading before the court of cassation on behalf of one of the rioters, he secured the annulling of the judgments given by the council of war.