| 单词 | to find an indictment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto find an indictment a. The action of indicting or accusing, a formal accusation; spec. in English Law, the legal process in which a formal accusation is preferred to and presented by a Grand Jury. Hence the phrases to bring in or lay an indictment, and (of the Grand Jury) to find an indictment. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] wrayingc1000 indictment1303 accusationa1382 information1387 appeaching1401 allegeancea1430 supposal1429 accuse?a1439 appealing1440 ditingc1440 indictingc1440 detection1471 cusing1488 indictament1523 arraigning1533 denouncement1544 arraignment1549 raignment1570 delation1578 denunciation1588 prosecution1590 accusement1596 inditure1614 aggravation1626 arraign1638 delating1820 billing1884 beef1928 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > bring a charge [verb (intransitive)] to bring in or lay an indictment1303 to call upon ——1448 accuse1546 propound1576 prosecute1611 to call on ——a1616 to lay an information1838 charge1891 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > indictment before grand jury indictment1581 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 8915 Ne quest take of endytement Yn holy cherche, oþer ȝerde purseynt. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 261/2 Indytynge, or indytement for trespas, indictacio. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 193 The tydingis of þis endytment cam to þe knowlech of þe duke of Gloucetir, and he..swore on þe holy gospel þat it was neuyr his purpos, ne his wil, for to purpos noþing ageyn þe welfare of þe kyng. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iv. v. 484 I take an Enditement to be the Verdite of the Iurors, grounded upon the accusation of a third person. 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 10 Who dares bring in such a foul endightment against the divine Law. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 203 Mr. Haughty,..How saiest thou, art thou guilty of this Indictment, or not? View more context for this quotation 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 512 The Hand-writing against him may be Cancelled in the Court of Heaven, and yet the Enditement run on in the Court of Conscience. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xix. 262 When such an indictment is therefore found by a grand jury of freeholders in the king's bench,..it is to be removed by a writ of certiorari into the court of the lord high steward. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. xiii. 280 You plead, my lord, to an indictment I have never laid. 1886 F. W. Farrar Hist. Interpr. 309 An even more tremendous indictment against the decadent morality of Rome and her priesthood might be drawn from the writings of Petrarch. < as lemmas |
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