 | United States. Task Force on Organized Crime - 1967 - 140 páginas
...presentment Is the notice taken by & grand jury of an offense from their own knowledge or observation without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the King. 4 BLACKSTONK, COMMENTARIES 301 (Andrews ed. 1899) . From the English presentment the Crown prosecutor... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1999 - 374 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...written accusation of an offence preferred to, and presentei upon oath, as true, by a grand jury, at the suit of the government. Upon a presentment, the... | |
 | Henry James Holthouse - 1999 - 504 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, am PRESUMPTION (presumptio). That which is presumed... | |
 | Lyn Farrel - 2002 - 94 páginas
..."presentments" were "the notice taken by the 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."200 It is clear that in the limited case of the special grand juries convened under 18 USC 3331-3334,... | |
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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. 
