Criminal Procedure
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The course or system of proceedings established by law, whereby persons accused of crime are apprehended, tried, and their punishment fixed.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The method pointed out by law for the apprehension, trial, or prosecution, and fixing the punishment of those persons who have broken or violated, or are supposed to have broken or violated, the laws prescribed for the regulation of the conduct of the people of the community, and who have thereby laid themselves liable to fine or imprisonment, or both. A. & E. Encyc. Law. See Procedure.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
The method pointed out by law for the apprehension, trial, or prosecution, and fixing the punishment, of those persons who have broken or violated, or are supposed to have broken or violated, the laws prescribed for the regulation of the conduct of the people of the community, and who have thereby laid themselves liable to fine or imprisonment or other punishment. 4 Amer. & Etog. Enc. Law, 730.
Defined under Criminal in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The method pointed out by law for the appreliension, trial, or prosecution, and fixing the punishment, of those persons who have broken or violated, or are supposed to have oroken or violated, the laws preseribed for the regulation of the conduct of the people of the community, and who have thereby laid themselves liable to fine or imprisonment or other punishment. 4 Amer. & Eng. Ene. Law, 700.