True Bill
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In practice
Words indorsed on a bill of indictment when a grand jury, after having heard the witnesses for the government, are of opinion that there is sufficient cause to put the defendant on his trial. Formerly the indorsement was Bilia vera when legal proceedings were in Latin. It is still the practice to write on the back of the bill Ignoramus. When the jury do not find it to be a true bill, the better opinion is that the omission of the words "a true bill" does not vitiate an indictment.
11 Cush. (Mass.) 473; 13 N. H. 488. See 5 Me. 432, and Bennett's note.