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323, a; 10 East, 476; 2 Br. practice, properly speaking, is the ————E——_—T—_ & Bing. 403; Cowp. 215; 2 Wils. notice taken by a grand jury of any 53. The subjects of prescription offence, from their own knowledge are the several kinds of incorporeal or observation, without any bill of rights. Vide, generally, 2 Chit. Bl. indictment laid before them at the 35, n. 24; Amer. Jurist, No. 37, p. suit of the government, 4 Bl. Com. 96; 17 Vin. Ab. 256; 7 Com. Dig. 301; upon such presentment, when 93; Rutherf. Inst. 63; Co. Litt. proper, the officer employed to pro- 113; 2 Conn. R. 584; 9 Conn. R. secute, afterwards frames a bill of 162. indictment, which is then sent to the The Civil Code of Louisiana, art. grand jury, and they find it to bea 3420, defines a prescription to be a true bill. In an extended sense premanner of acquiring property, or of sentments include not only what is tions of office, and indictments found by a grand jury. 2 Hawk. c. 25, s. 1. The difference between a presentment and an inquisition, (q. v.) is this, that the former is found by a grand jury authorised to inquire of offences generally, whereas the latter igs an accusation found by a jury specially returned to inquire concerning the particular offence. 2 Hawk. c. 25, s. 6. Vide, gencrally, Com. Dig. Indictment, (3B); Bac. Ab. Indictment, (A); 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 163; 7 East, R. 387. The writing which contains the accusation so presented to a grand jury, is also called a presentment. Vide Grand Jury.

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