Legal Term Dictionary

Proper or necessary to be prosecuted by process of Indictment.

Proper or necessary to be prosecuted by process of Indictment. Less...

Charged in an indictment with a criminal offense. See INDICTMENT.

Charged in an indictment with a criminal offense. See INDICTMENT. Less...

A person indicted.

A person indicted. Less...

In old public law. A declaration; a proclamation. Jndictio belli, a declaration or indiction of war. An indictment

In old public law. A declaration; a proclamation. Jndictio belli, a declaration or indiction of war. An indictment Less...

A mode of computing time by the space of fifteen years, instituted by Constantine the Great; originally the period for the payment of certain taxes. Some of the charters of King Edgar and Henry III. are dated by indictions. Wharton.

A mode of computing time by the space of fifteen years, instituted by Constantine the Great; originally the period for the payment of certain taxes. Some of the charters of King Edgar and Henry III. are dated by indictions. Wharton. Less...

An indictment is an accusation in writing found and presented by a grand jury, legally convoked and sworn, to the court in which it is impaneled, charging that a person therein named has done some act, or been guilty of some omission, which, by law, is a public offense, punishable More...

An indictment is an accusation in writing found and presented by a grand jury, legally convoked and sworn, to the court in which it is impaneled, charging that a person therein named has done some act, or been guilty of some omission, which, by law, is a public offense, punishable on indictment Code Iowa 1880, f 4295; Pen. Code Cal. { 917; Code Ala. 1886, $ 4364. And see Grin v. Shine, 187 U. S. 181, 23 Sup. Ct 98, 47 L. Ed. 130; State v. Walker, 82 N. G 236; Ex parte Hart, 63 Fed. 259, 11 C. C. A. 165, 28 L. R. A. 801; Ex parte Bain, 121 U. S. 1, 7 Sup. Ct 781, 30 L. Ed. 849; Ex parte Slater, 72 Mo. 102; Finley v. State, 61 Ala. 201. A presentment differs from an indictment in that it is an accusation made by a grand jury of their own motion, either upon their own observation and knowledge, or upon evidence before them; while an indictment is preferred at the suit of the government and is usually framed in the first instance by the prosecuting officer of the government, and by him laid before the grand jury, to be found or ignored. An information resembles in its form and substance an indictment but is filed at the mere discretion of the proper law officer of the government without the intervention or approval of a grand jury. 2 Story, Const. || 1784, 1786. In Scotch law. An indictment is the form of process by which a criminal is brought to trial at the instance of the lord advocate. Where a private party is a principal prosecutory he brings bis charge in what is termed the "form of criminal letters." -Joint indictment. When several offenders are joined in the same indictment, such an indictment is called a "joint indictment;" as when principals in the first and second degree, and accessaries before and after the fact, are all joined in the same indictment 2 Hale, P. C. 173; Brown. , Indictment de felony est contra paoem dominl regis, ooronam, et dignitatem snam, in genera ot non inindividuo; quia in Anglia non est interregnum. Jenk. Cent 205. Indictment for felony is against the peace of our lord the king, his crown and dignity in general, and not against his individual person; because in England there is no interregnums. Less...

He who causes another to be indicted. The latter is sometimes called the "indictee."

He who causes another to be indicted. The latter is sometimes called the "indictee." Less...

Impartial; unbiased; disinterested. People v. Vermilyea, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 122; Fox v. Hills, 1 ConH. 307.

Impartial; unbiased; disinterested. People v. Vermilyea, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 122; Fox v. Hills, 1 ConH. 307. Less...

In old English law. A subject born; one born within the realm, or naturalized by act of parliament Co. Litt 8a. The opposite of "alimigena," (q. v.)

In old English law. A subject born; one born within the realm, or naturalized by act of parliament Co. Litt 8a. The opposite of "alimigena," (q. v.) Less...

In a general sense an "indigent" person is one who is'needy and poor, or one who has not sufficient property to furnish him a living nor any one able to support him and to whom he is entitled to look for support. See Storrs Agricultural School v. % Whitney, 54 More...

In a general sense an "indigent" person is one who is'needy and poor, or one who has not sufficient property to furnish him a living nor any one able to support him and to whom he is entitled to look for support. See Storrs Agricultural School v. % Whitney, 54 Conn. 342, 8 Atl. 141; Juneau County v. Wood County, 109 Wis. 330, 85 N. W" 387 ; City of Lynchburg v. Slaughter, 75 Va. 62. The laws of some of the states distinguish between "paupers" and "Indigent persons," the latter being persons who have no property or source of income sufficient for their support aside from their own labor, though self-supporting when able to work and In employment. See In re Hybart, 119 N. C. 359, 25 S. E. 963; People v. Schoharie County, 121 N. Y. 345, 24 N. E. 830; Rev. St Mo. 1899, ? 4894 (Am. St 1906, p. 2616). Less...