Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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bill of Middlesex.

Hist. A process by which the Court of the King's Bench in Middlesex obtains jurisdiction over a defendant who resides in a county outside the jurisdiction of the Court, by alleging a fictitious trespass in a county over which the court has jurisdiction. 0 Once the sheriff returns the bill noting that the defendant is not in the county where the trespass occurred, a latitat is issued to the sheriff of the defendant's actual residence. See LATITAT. "The bill of Middlesex . . . is a kind of capias, directed to the sheriff of that county, and commanding him to take the defendant and have him before our lord the king at Westminster on a day prefixed, to answer to the plaintiff of a plea of trespass. For this accusation of trespass it is, that gives the court of king's bench jurisdiction in other civil causes, as was formerly observed; since when once the defendant is taken into custody ... of this court,

same sex. sexual harassment

See SEXUAL HARASSMENT.

sex.

1. The sum of the peculiarities of structure and function that distinguish a male from a female organism. 2. Sexual intercourse. 3. SEXUAL RELATIONS (2)