accuser
Defined in 6 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)
United States Code
10 U.S.C. § 801 — in this chapter
The term “accuser” means a person who signs and swears to charges, any person who directs that charges nominally be signed and sworn to by another, and any other person who has an interest other than an official interest in the prosecution of the accused.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
One who makes an accusation. ACEPHALI (Graeco-Lat.) Persons without a head or superior. In Civil Law. A sect of religious persons enumerated among the heretics. Otherwise called acephalitae. So termed, according to Calvin, because their head or founder was unknown, and they acknowledged no religious superiors. Calv. Lex. In Feudal Law. Persons without a feudal superior; who held of no one as their lord. Baronorum homines et acephalos. LL, Hen. I. c. 22. This is thought by Burrill to be the passage referred to in Cowell as descriptive of a class of levelers who acknowledged no head or superior.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
One who makes an accusation.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The person by whom an accusation is made.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
one who makes an accusation.