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Bill of indictment

noun

A formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense. Synonym: indictment.

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... have for some time been convinced that I have done wrong to scribble to thee so freely as I have done (and the more so, if I make the lady legally mine); for has not every letter I have written to thee been a bill of indictment against myself? I may partly curse my vanity for it; and I think I will refrain for the future; for thou art really ...

— Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson

... not in admiralty, but in the criminal business of the court, gave the judge another opportunity for falling back on his inexhaustible stores of legal and historical knowledge. The question was on the point whether the action of a grand jury was legal in returning a bill of indictment found only by fourteen members, the fifteenth member being absent and taking no part in the proceedings. Judge Willson reviewed the matter at length, citing precedents of the English and American courts for several centuries to show that the action ...

— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin

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