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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
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An accusation exhibited against a person for some criminal offense, without au indict. ment.
4 Ll. Comm. 308.
An accusation in the nature of an indictment, from which it differs only in being presented by a competent public oflicer on his oath of oflice, instead of a grand jury on their oath.
1 Bish. Crim. Proe. § 141.
The word is also frequently used in the law in its sense of communicated knowledge, and affidavits are frequently made, and pleadings and other documents verilied, on “information and belief.”. In French law. The act or instrument which contains the depositions of witnesses against the accased.
Toth. Proc. Civil, § 2, art. 5.
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