 | William Blackstone - 1771 - 274 lehte
...PRESENTMENT. 2. By INDICTMENT. Or, without fuch Finding. 3. By INFORMATION. 4: By APPEAL. 2. A PRESENTMENT is the Notice taken by a grand Jury of any Offence, from their own Knowlege or Obfervation. 3An INDICTMENT y is a written Accufation of one pr more Perfons of a Crime... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1791 - 528 lehte
...alfo inquifitions of office, and indidlments by a grand jury. A prefentment, properly fpeaking, is the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own know* lege or obfervation % without any bill of indictment laid before them at the fuit of the king.... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 432 lehte
...prefenlmext. 2. By mdiSment. Or, without fuch finding. 3. By information. 4. By appeal. 2. A preferment is the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence, from their own knowledge or ob« fervation. (3.) An indifíment is a written accufation of one or more perfens of a crime or mifdemeanor,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1800 - 620 lehte
...but alfo inquifitions of office, and indi&ments by a grand jury. A prefentment, properly fpeaking, is the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or obfervation *, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the fuit of the king. As, the prefentment... | |
 | William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 lehte
...office, and indictments by a grand jury. A presentment, firofieriy speaking, is the notice taken by the grand jury of any offence, from their own knowledge...of indictment laid before them at the suit of the commonwealth. As the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, and the like ; upon which the officer of the... | |
 | Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel - 1811 - 754 lehte
...secondly, by a presentment, which is a more comprehensive term, and is an accu.sation founded upon the notice taken by a grand jury, of any offence, from their knowledge, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the king ; upon which the... | |
 | Henry Potter - 1816 - 474 lehte
...or deed. — 28 Edtu, 3, Ct §,. . ""Y. . PRESENTMENT ..BRIXC1PAL. . 245 PRESENTMENT. Presentment is the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from...observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them in behalf of the state. When a presentment shall be made of any offence by the grand jury, upon the... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1819 - 852 lehte
...sanction. Of the former description, the proceedings which are now in force are indictments, presentments by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge...without any bill of *indictment laid before them, coroners' inquests in cases [*162] of homicide, and the verdict of a jury in a civil cause. Of the... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1819 - 752 lehte
...sanction. Of the former description, the proceedings which are now in force are indictments, presentments by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment* [*162] laid before them, coroners' inquests in cases of homicide, and the verdict of a jury in a civil... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 378 lehte
...PRESENTMENT, of offences, is that which the grand jury find of their own knowledge, and present to the court, without any bill of indictment laid before them at 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... | |
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A presentment, properly speaking, is the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them, at the suit of the... 
