| William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 Seiten
...the commonwealth. As the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, and the like ; upon which the officer of the court must afterwards frame an indictment,...before the party presented can be put to answer it. An inguisi/ic>n of office is the act of a jury summoned by the proper officer to inquire of matters... | |
| William Nicholson - 1821 - 378 Seiten
...the suit of the King, as a presentment of a nuisance, a libel, and the like ; upon which the officer of the court must afterwards frame an indictment,...before the party presented can be put to answer it. There are also presentments by justices of the peace, constables, surveyors of the highways, churchwardens,... | |
| 1820 - 212 Seiten
...the suit of the king : as the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like, upon which the officer of the court must afterwards frame an indictment,...before the party presented can be put to answer it. An inquisition of office is, the act of a jury summoned by the proper officer, to inquire of m.itters... | |
| Richard Burn - 1820 - 834 Seiten
...English by the jury, in a short note, for instructions to draw the indictment by ; upon which the officer of the court must afterwards frame an indictment, before the party presented can be put to answer it : and it differs from an indictment, in that an indictment is drawn up at large, and brought ingrossed... | |
| William Nicholson - 1821 - 376 Seiten
...the suit of the King, as a presentment of a nuisance, a libel, and the like ; upon which the officer of the court must afterwards frame an indictment,...before the party presented can be put to answer it. There are also presentments by justices of the peace, constables, surveyors of the highways, churchwardens,... | |
| 1823 - 872 Seiten
...the suit of the king: As the presentment of anuisancc, a libel, and the like; upon which the offictr of the court must afterwards frame an indictment,...before the party presented can be put to answer it. An inquisition of office is the act of a jury, summoned by the proper officer to inquire of matters... | |
| Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 Seiten
...suit of the king. As, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, and the like ; upon which the officer of the court must afterwards frame an indictment,...before the party presented can be put to answer it. An inquisition of office is the act of a jury, summoned by the proper officer to inquire of matters... | |
| Nathan Dane - 1824 - 726 Seiten
...the United States, or of a State ; as the presentment of a nusance Sic., on which the public attorney must afterwards frame an indictment before the party presented can be put to answer. § 3. Indictment is a written accusation of one or more per- 4 Bl. Com. sons of a crime or misdemeanor,... | |
| sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 584 Seiten
...suit of the king ; as the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, and the like ; upon which the officer of the court must afterwards frame an indictment '',...before the party presented can be put to answer it. An inquisition of office is the act of a jury summoned by the proper officer to inquire of matters... | |
| Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 Seiten
...laid before them ; as the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, and the like ; upon which the officer of the court must afterwards 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,... | |
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