Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A coroner’s inquest.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In English law. A court of record, to inquire, when any one dies in prison or comes to a violent or sudden dcath, by what manner he came to his end. 4 Steph. Comm. 323 ; 4 Bl. Comm. 274. See Coroner.