Legal Definition and Related Resources of Count

A count in an indictment means a paragraph thereof; the usual organizational sub unit of an indictment. An allegation charging a distinct offense . In civil procedure , the term was sometimes used synonymously with declaration ; however, in course of time it became a part of a declaration wherein the plaintiff set forth a distinct cause of action . See Ryan v Riddle, 82 S.W. 1117, 109 Mo. App. 115.

(Fr. comte, from the Latin comes). An earl. It gave way as a distinct title to the Saxon earl, but was retained in countess, viscount, and as the basis of county. Termes de la Ley; 1 Bl. Comm. 398. See “Comes.” In Pleading. The plaintiff’s statement of his cause of action. This word, derived from the French conte, a narrative, is in our old law books used synonymously with “declaration;” but practice has introduced the following distinction : When the plaintiff’s complaint embraces only a single cause of action, and he makes only one statement of it, that statement is called, indifferently, a “declaration” or.”count,” though the former is the more usual term; but when the suit embraces two or more causes of action, each of which, of course, requires a different statement, or when the plaintiff makes two or more different statements of one and the same cause of action, each several statement is called a “count,” and all of them collectively, constitute the “declaration.” In all cases, however, in which there are two or more counts, whether there is actually but one cause of action or several, each count purports, upon the face of it, to disclose a distinct right of action, unconnected with that stated in any of the other counts.

noun

• accusation
• allegation
• assertion
• averment
• case for the prosecution
• charge
• citation
• claim
• comes
• condemnation
• countercharge
• crimination
• declaration
• delation
• denunciation
• distinct statement
• imputation
• inculpation
• indictment
• item
• item in the indictment
• main charge
• particular charge
• statement of a cause of action
• Associated Concepts: count in an accusatory instrument
• omnibus count

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Translate Count from English to Spanish

Translation of Count, with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Punto and other legal terms is available here.

• Punto
• Cargo
• Legal English Translation

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Count in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of count.

Meaning of Count in Spanish

Description/ translation of count into Spanish: cargo (cada uno de los delitos que se imputan al reo en el escrito de acusación – (indictment); la imputación (charge) puede contener una multiplicidad de counts; multiple counts: pluralidad de cargos[1]

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Notes and References

1. Translation of Count published by Antonio Peñaranda

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Policeman
• Law Enforcement Agency

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• count in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• count in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

English Legal System: Count

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Count :

See indictment.

Concept of “Counter,count”

Traditional meaning of counter,count in the French law history (with some legal use in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in French) To declare; to plead orally. Countamus: we declare.

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Notes and References

1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Counter,count”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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