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Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
Anything which amounts to a notification of the holding of a bill with a request to accept accompanied by the bill.
See 4 How. (Miss.) 567, 35 Am. Dec. 408.
A notice or accusation of crime by a grand jury not preceded by any bill but subsequently reduced to a formal indictment.
See 109 Cal. 445, 42 Pac. 444.