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‖ procès verbal|prɔsɛ vɛrbal| Pl. procès verbaux |-bo|. Sometimes anglicized as process verbal. [F.: see process and verbal.] A detailed written report of proceedings; minutes; in Fr. Law, an authenticated written statement of facts in support of a criminal or other charge.
1635(title) A Relation of the Devill Balams Departure out of the Body of the Mother Prioresse of the Ursuline Nuns of Loudun,..with the Extract of the proces verball, touching the Exorcismes wrought at Loudun. [1753Verbal process: see process n. 4.] 1804Edin. Rev. Jan. 390 All this was attested in a procès-verbal, signed by the magistrates of the municipality. 1807Southey Espriella's Lett. III. 283 The process-verbal of the conference has been printed. 1815Scott Guy M. x, [To] make up the written report, procès verbal, or precognition, as it is technically called. 1906Athenæum 23 June 772/1 Mr. Somers Clarke wishes that the honorary members..could receive the procès-verbaux in time to communicate their views as to important decisions before these are irrevocably carried into effect. |