Joint Indictment
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
When several offenders are joined in the same indictment, such an indictment is called a “joint indictment;” as when principals in the first and second degree, and accessaries before and after the fact, are all joined in the same in- @iciment.
2 Hale, P. C. 173; Brown. ¢OINT LIVES.
This expression is used to designate the duration of an estate or right which is granted to two or more persons to be enjoyed so long as they both (or all) shall lve. As soon as one dies, the interest determines,