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TO QUASH, exercise. To overthrow or annul. 2. They will be quashed by the courts, equally in civil and criminal cases: for instance, once the variety is clearly irregular, as though the jurors have now been chosen by individuals not authorized by law, it'll be quashed when procedures are clearly irregular and void. 3 Bouv. Inst. D. 3342. 3. In legal cases, when an indictment is so faulty that no view could be offered upon it, must the offender be charged, the judge, upon application, may generally quash it; as though it have no authority of the offence charged, or when the matter charged isn't indictable. 1 Burr. 516, 548; Andr. 226. Once the application to quash is created on the area of the offender, the judge usually declines to quash the indictment when it seems some great crime has been committed. |
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