ARREST of Judgment is the assigning just reason why judgment should not pass, notwithstanding verdict given, either in civil or in criminal cases, and from intrinsic causes arising on the face of the record.
Under the New Common Law Procedure Act, 15th and
16th Vict., c. 76, § 143, the omitted facts, however, may, by leave of the court, be suggested. Although these motions are not abolished altogether, they will therefore not be fatal as heretofore, but the truth of the suggested facts omitted will be tried and judgment be given thereon; and this judgment will have the same effect, under section 144, as if the suggested facts were in the original pleadings. (R. M.—M.)