Definition of indict

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Indict (v. t.) To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.

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Information :: Information (v. t.) A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment..
Indictment :: Indictment (n.) The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted..
Vindictive :: Vindictive (a.) Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.
Prosecution :: Prosecution (n.) The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information..
Venire Facias :: Venire facias () A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also venire.
Presentment :: Presentment (n.) The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like; also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an indictment, or the act of offering an indictment; also, the indictment itself..
Bench Warrant :: Bench warrant () A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant..
Count :: Count (v. t.) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution..
Endict :: Endict (v. t.) See Indict.
Indicter :: Indicter (n.) One who indicts.
Indiction :: Indiction (n.) Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment.
Vindicative :: Vindicative (a.) Revengeful; vindictive.
Indict :: Indict (v. t.) To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
Caption :: Caption (n.) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed..
Find :: Find (v. t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person..
Indict :: Indict (v. t.) To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
Present :: Present (a.) To bring an indictment against .
Vindictive :: Vindictive (a.) Punitive.
Indictive :: Indictive (a.) Proclaimed; declared; public.
Vengeful :: Vengeful (a.) Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
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