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Charge :: Charge (v. t.) To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.

Accuse :: Accuse (n.) Accusation.

Strain :: Strain (a.) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person..

Accuse :: Accuse (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.

Accusable :: Accusable (a.) Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.

Alfet :: Alfet (n.) A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

Criminate :: Criminate (v. t. ) To accuse of, or charge with, a crime..

Delator :: Delator (n.) An accuser; an informer.

Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony..

Bailment :: Bailment (n.) The action of bailing a person accused.

Prosecute :: Prosecute (v. t.) To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment, before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot..

Absolution :: Absolution (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent..

Defame :: Defame (v. t.) To charge; to accuse.

Detect :: Detect (v. t.) To inform against; to accuse.

Probator :: Probator (n.) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence..

Purgation :: Purgation (n.) The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal..

Dock :: Dock (n.) The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.

Denunciator :: Denunciator (n.) One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses..

Torture :: Torture (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel..

Justification :: Justification (n.) The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer.

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