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Private prosecutor

Defined in 1 dictionary — Black's (1910)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

One who seta in motion the machinery of criminal justice against a person whom he suspects or believes to be gnilty of a crime, by laying an accusation before the proper authorities, and who is not himself an officer of justice. See Heacock v. State, 13 Tex. App. 129; State v. Millain, 3 Nev. 425.

Defined under Prosecutor in Black's Law Dictionary.