Indicted

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 c. 17) (repealed), as amended by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 35, ss. 1, 2 (repealed), that no bill of indictment for perjury, conspiracy, indecent assault or certain other misdemeanours therein named, should be presented to a grand jury,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Provisions) Act, 1933 (which abolished Grand Juries and amended the law as to presentment of indictments), repealed the whole of the Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859, and s. 1 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1867, but not so as to affect any enactment restricting the right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...

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

Bill of indictment

Bill of indictment, means a bill which charges a person with an indictable offence and is signed by an officer of the court, can become an indicting. It may be preferred by directing or with the consent of a High Court Judge, or by direction of the court of appeal, or where a person is committed for trial by examining Magistrates. In re Practice Direction, (1990) 1 WLR 1633; R. v. Raymond, (1981) 2 ER 246....

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 ...

indictable

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

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....

Objection to indictment

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

Indicter

One who indicts...

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 ...

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