单词 | bill of complaint |
释义 | > as lemmasbill of complaint a. Law. A written statement of a case; a pleading by the plaintiff or defendant (but generally by the former), e.g. a bill of complaint in Chancery; an indictment. Obsolete except in certain phrases, chiefly, to find a true bill, to ignore the bill, said of a Grand Jury, whose duty it is, in criminal Assizes, to declare that there is, or is not, sufficient evidence to justify the hearing of a case before the judge and ordinary jury. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > complaint in respect of civil claim > written application to court billc1400 request1582 petition1872 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > setting forth of plaintiff's case > written libel1340 billc1400 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xv. 172 Both partyes writen here Causes in 2 Billes. c1480 Black Bk. Admiralty (Rolls) I. 305 [Les querelles et billes de lappellant et du deffendant seront plaidees a la court.] transl. The quarell and the billes of the appellant and of the defendant shall be pletid in the Court. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 7 Justices..have auctorite..to here and determyn the reherced causes..upon bill before theym. 1531 Act 23 Hen. VIII xv Any accion, bill, or playnt of trespace. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. K2v/2 Bille...is a declaration in writing, that expresseth either the griefe and the wrong that the complaynant hath suffered, by the party complained of, or els some fault, that the party complayned of, hath committed against some lawe or statute of the common wealth. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Nn3/2 Ignoramus, is a word properly vsed by the grand Enquest..and writen vpon the bill. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 33 Anytus,..procur'd Melitus to prefer a bill against him. 1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 485 Sir T. Plumer, M.R...accordingly dismissed the bill. bill of complaint bill of complaint: the written statement of the plaintiff's case.extracted from complaintn.< as lemmas |
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