单词 | to draw an indictment |
释义 | > as lemmasto draw (up) an indictment b. The legal document containing the charge; ‘a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury’ (Blackstone). Hence to draw (up) an indictment. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > indictment before grand jury > document containing indictment1506 bill of indictmentc1530 1506 W. de Worde (title) The boke of Justyces of peas the charge with..all that longyth to ony Justyce to make endytements of haute treason, petyt treason. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxvi When thenditement was openly redde, the Duke sayd it is false. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vi. 1 This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings, Which in a set hand fairely is engrosst, That it may be this day read ouer in Paules. View more context for this quotation 1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Ἀνεκδοτα Ἑτερουιακα 15 The Enditement was drawn up. 1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 7 Notaries and Journeymen to Courts, to draw up Inditements, Bonds, Leases, Contracts, and the like. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1889) II. xv. 177 A motion in arrest of judgment was instantly made, on the ground that a Latin word endorsed on the back of the indictment was incorrectly spelt. 1883 J. F. Stephen Hist. Criminal Law I. 274 When they [the grand jury] have heard enough to satisfy themselves that a prima facie case is or is not made out against the prisoner, they endorse upon the indictment ‘a true bill’ or ‘no true bill’ as the case may be. < as lemmas |
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