Legal Definition and Related Resources of Informant

One who appears before a magistrate or other judicial authority and lays a charge that someone has committed a specific offense for which he should be tried. See informer .

noun

• accuser
• adviser
• announcer
• annunciator
• appriser
• auctor
• communicant
• communicator
• delator
• dispatcher
• divulger
• enlightener
• envoy
• harbinger
• herald
• information giver
• informer
• intelligencer
• narrator
• notifier
• proclaimer
• relator
• reporter
• source
• spy
• stool pigeon
• talebearer
• tipper
• tipster
• witness
• Associated Concepts: paid informant
• reliable informants
• undercover informant

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Informant in Historical Law

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Informant in Law Enforcement

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

Resources

See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Work
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

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