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Information
(English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXVIII., r. 2, and consult Robertson on the Crown. Information and complaint for an indictable offence has to be sworn before a justice of the peace: (Eng-lish) Indictable Offences Act, 1848 (11 &
Abatement
Act, 1826 (7 Geo. 4, c. 64), s. 19, in case of misnomer the judge may amend the indictment or information, and call upon the prisoner or defendant to plead in bar to the merits; and by
Presentment
Presentment, a very comprehensive term, including not only presentments properly so called, but also inquisitions of office, and indictments by a grand jury; properly speaking, the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence, from their
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Libel
such writings as are of a blasphemous, treasonable, seditious, or immoral kind. As to the averment in an indictment for obscene libel, see R. v. Barraclough, (1906) 1 KB 201. A libel is a publication of a
Bail
take bail at the time of the examination; and in all cases where a person charged with an indictable offence is committed to prison to take his trial for the same, it is lawful at any time
information
of a crime that is issued by a prosecuting officer and that serves the same function as an indictment presented by a grand jury compare complaint, indictment NOTE: About half the states in the United States allow
accuse
causa legal case, trial] vt : to charge with an offense judicially or by a public process compare indict vi : to make or bring an accusation ac·cus·er n
Contra pacem
Contra pacem (against the peace). It was formerly necessary, in indictments to allege that the offence was committed against the peace of our Lord the King (or Lady the
Prosecution
Prosecution, a proceeding either by way of indict-ment or information, in the criminal courts, in order to put an offender upon his trial. In all criminal
arraign
a judge or magistrate to hear the charges and to plead usually either guilty or not guilty compare indict NOTE: For a person to be formally arraigned, he or she must be called by name before a
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