 | William Blackstone - 1771 - 274 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1800 - 620 pages
...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... | |
 | Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel - 1811 - 754 pages
...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 pages
...or deed. — 28 Edtu, 3, Ct §,. . ""Y. . PRESENTMENT ..BRIXC1PAL. . 245 PRESENTMENT. Presentment 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 in behalf of the state. When a presentment... | |
 | 1820 - 212 pages
...also inquisitions of office, and indictments by a grand jury. A presentment, properly speaking, is the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowle'dge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the king : as the presentment... | |
 | 1821 - 328 pages
...2. by indictment: or, without such finding, 3. by information ; 4. by appeal. vIII. A presentment ts the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence, from their own knowledge or observation. Ix. An indictment is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemesnor,... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 pages
...finding. The former way is either by presentment, or indictment. I. 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 king. As, the presentment... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 576 pages
...also inquisitions of office, and indictments by a grand jury. 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 king ; as the... | |
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