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Inscribere

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In the Roman law. To subscribe an accusation. The subscriber was bound to substantiate his charge, or suffer the penalty appropriate to such charge. Calv. Lex. INSCRIPTIO (Lat.)

In civil law. A written accusation; an undertaking to suffer the punishment of the accused in case of a failure to prove him guilty. Calv. Lex.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

To charge with crime.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat.

In the civll law. To subscribe an accusation. To bind one's self, in case of failure to prove an accusation, to suffer the same punishment which the accused would have suffered had he been proved guilty. Calvin.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I.

In the civil law. To subscribe an accusation; to bind one's self, in case of failure to prove an accusation, to suffer the punishment which otherwise the accused would have suffered.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Lat.

In the civil law. To subseribe an accusation. To bind one’s self, in case of failure to prove an accusation, to suifer the same punishment which the accused would have suffered had he been proved guilty, Calvin.