 | Joseph Story - 1865 - 382 páginas
...presentment, properly speaking, is an accusation, made by a grand jury of their own mere motion, of an offence upon their own observation and knowledge, or upon...at the suit of the government. Upon a presentment, ths, proper office! of the court must frame an indictment, before the party accused can be put to answer... | |
 | Abraham Caruthers - 1866 - 716 páginas
...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 State. (4 Blk., 300.) At common law, the party presented could not be put to answer the presentment;... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1867 - 1090 páginas
...is properly the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or obffrrvation without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the crown, as the presentment of a nuisance or the like. The term is commonly used to include also inquisitions... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1868 - 384 páginas
...presentment, properly speaking, is an accusation, made by a grand jury of their own mere motion, of an offence upon their own observation and knowledge, or upon...of the government. Upon a presentment, the proper officel of the court must frame an indictment, before the party accused can be put to answer it. But... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 744 páginas
...A presentment, properly speaking, is an accusation made ex mero motu by a grand jury of an offence upon their own observation and knowledge, or upon...at the suit of the government. An indictment is a 1 [See Green v. Briggs. 1 Curtis, CC 311. See Murray's Lessee v. Hoboken Land and Improvement Co. 18... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1874 - 876 páginas
...Indieare, to point out, or, as some suppose, from indiftre and indictut), a written accusation (if an offence, preferred to, and presented upon oath as true by, a grand jury. Indictments are to be preferred in crimin;d matters only, and they lie for all treasons and felonies,... | |
 | Archibald Brown - 1874 - 510 páginas
...signifies 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 king ; as the presentment of a nuisance, a libel and the like; upon which the officer of the Court... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1874 - 724 páginas
...the notice taken by a grand jury, of any matter or offence from their own knowledge or observations, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the Crown (6): — as the presentment by them of a nuisance, a libel, and the like ; upon which the officer... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1876 - 658 páginas
...speaking, is the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence* from their own knowledge or observation, (a) without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the king: as the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, and the like ; upon which the officer of the court... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1876 - 752 páginas
...speaking, is the notice taken by a grand jury of any offense from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the king. An indictment is defined to be a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime, or misdemeanor,... | |
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... 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. 
