 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 458 pages
...receiving those impressions on the outer side, which are commonly seen. INDIAN I.NK. See INK. INDICTMENT, is a written accusation of one or more persons, of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented on oath by a GRAND JURY, which see. IN moo, a drug, of a dark-... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 516 pages
...receiving those impressions on the outer side, which are commonly seen. INDIAN INK. See INK. INDICTMENT, is a written accusation of one or more persons, of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented on oath by a GRAND JURY, which see. INDIGO, a drug, of a dark-blue... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 394 pages
...or ask something. INDICTIC-N, in chronology, a cycle of fifteen years. See CRRONIH.OUT. INDICTMENT, is a written accusation of one or more persons, of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented on oath b'y, a grand jury. An indictment may be found on the... | |
 | Trials (Murder) - 1820 - 212 pages
...means of prosecution, and into which we will therefore inquire a little more minutely. "An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons, of a crime or misdemeanor preferred to and presented on oath by a grand jury. To this end, the sheriff of every county... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 328 pages
...notice taken by a grand jury of any offence, from their own knowledge or observation. Ix. An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemesnor, preferred to, and presented on oath by, a grand jury; expressing, with sufficient certainty,... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...brings it to a kind of indictment, the most usual and effectual means of prosecution. II. An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury. To this end the sheriff of every... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...prosecution, and into which we will therefore inquire a little more minutely. (2) II. An indictment c is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemesnor, preferred to, and pre• See Appendix, § 1. but it may be removed into the king's bench... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...frame an indictment, before the party presented can be put to answer it. INDICTMENT. An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to and presented upon oath by a grand jury. To this end the sheriff of every... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...prosecution, and into which we will therefore inquire a little more minutely. (2) II. An indictment c is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemesnor, preferred to, and prec See Appendix, § 1. but it may be removed into the king's bench... | |
 | Charles Petersdorff - Law - 1831 - 542 pages
...the penalty given by the statute being only accu-wer.° alrea mulative. bfe'ii'co'm * An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons, of a crime preferred to, • and presented upon oath by, я grand jury returned to inquire of all offences in... | |
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An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury. 
