Complaint
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Criminal Law. The allegation made to a proper officer that some person, whether known or unknown, has been guilty of a designated offense, with an offer to prove scriptive of proceedings before a magistrate.
11 Pick. (Mass.) 436.
In Code Pleading. The plaintiff's flrst pleading in a civil action.