Indictable

Vexatious indictments

Vexatious indictments. In order to prevent these, it was provided, by the (English) Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 17) (repealed), as amended by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 35, ss. 1, 2 (repealed), that no bill of indictment for perjury, conspiracy, indecent assault or certain other misdemeanours therein named, should be presented to a grand jury, unless the prosecutor had been bound over by recognizance to prosecute, or unless the person accused had been committed to or detained in custody, or unless the indictment should be preferred with the written consent of the Attorney-General. The (English) Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1933 (which abolished Grand Juries and amended the law as to presentment of indictments), repealed the whole of the Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859, and s. 1 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1867, but not so as to affect any enactment restricting the right to prosecute in parti...

Traversing Indictment

Traversing Indictment, postponing the trial of it.The (English) Criminal Procedure Act, 1851, s. 16, repeals 60 Geo. 3 & 1 Geo. 4, c. 4, as to the traverse of indictments in cases of misdemeanour, and provides, by s. 27, that no person prosecuted shall be entitled to traverse or postpone the trial of any indictment found against him at any session of the peace, session of oyer and terminer, or session of gaol delivery; but if the Court upon the application of the person so indicted, or otherwise, thinks that he ought to be allowed a further time to prepare for his defence, or otherwise, such Court may adjourn the trial to the next session, upon such terms as to bail, etc., as shall seem meet, and may respite the recognizances of the prosecutor and witnesses; the prosecutor and witnesses to be bound to attend and prosecute and give evidence, without entering into fresh recognizances....

indictable : making one liable to indictment [an offense] ...

Indictable

Capable of being or liable to be indicted subject to indictment as an indictable offender or offense...

indictment

indictment 1 : the action or the legal process of indicting 2 a : a formal written statement framed by a prosecuting authority and found by a grand jury that charges a person or persons with an offense compare complaint, information b : bill of indictment at bill ...

Indicted

Indicted, charged in an indictment with a criminal offence. see INDICTMENT....

Indiction, cycle of

Indiction, cycle of, 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, Jac. Law Dict....

indict

indict [alteration of earlier indite, from Anglo-French enditer, from Old French, to write down, ultimately from Latin indicere to proclaim, from in- toward + dicere to say] : to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a grand jury in due form of law compare accuse, arraign, charge ...

bill of indictment

bill of indictment see bill ...

Objection to indictment

Objection to indictment. On this being taken, the same course is followed as set out under the last title....

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