Impeachment
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English Law. 'The prosecution of a peer or commoner by the house of commons at the bar of the house of lords for treason, high crimes, or misdemeanors.
6 Enc. Laws Eng. 318.
In American Law. A proceeding against a public civil ofl Bcer, ordinarily prosecuted by the more numerous body of the legislature at the bar of the other, for the removal of such of Qcer from office. In Practice. An attack on the testimo Hy of a witness by showing his lack of timony by showing that the facts at issue are other than as testified to.