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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

(That the bill be quashed.) In practice. The form of the judgment rendered for a defendant on a plea in abatement, where the proceeding is by bill, (that is, where the suit is commenced by capias, and not by original writ).

2 Arch. Pr. 4.

BILLA EXCAMBII, or ESCAMBII. L. Lat. A bill of exchange. See Litera Cambii. BILLA VERA. L. Lat. (A true bill.) In old practice. The indorsement anciently made on a bill of indictment by a grand jury, when they found it sufficiently sustained by evidence.

4 Bl. Com. 306.

Doct. & Stud. dial.

2, c. 54. p. 279.

See Indictment.

See Indictment.