Tag: Indictment

  • Amendment Of Indictment

    Meaning of Amendment of Indictment Resources See Also Indictment Information

  • Against the form of the statute

    Against the form of the statute

    Technical words which must be used in framing an indictment for a breach of the statute prohibiting the act complained of. The Latin phrase is contra formam statuti. …

  • Against the form of the statute

    Against the form of the statute

    Technical words which must be used in framing an indictment for a breach of the statute prohibiting the act complained of. The Latin phrase is contra formam statuti. …

  • Disjunctive Allegation

    Disjunctive Allegation

    Meaning of Disjunctive Allegation Resources See Also Federal Civil Procedure Indictment Information Pleading

  • Aider by verdict

    Aider by verdict

    In pleading. The presumption which arises after verdict, whether in a civil or criminal case, that those facts, without proof of which the verdict could not have been found, were proved, though they are not distinctly alleged in the record; provided it contains terms suflSciently general […]

  • Aider by verdict

    Aider by verdict

    In pleading. The presumption which arises after verdict, whether in a civil or criminal case, that those facts, without proof of which the verdict could not have been found, were proved, though they are not distinctly alleged in the record; provided it contains terms suflSciently general […]

  • Against the peace and dignity of the state

    Against the peace and dignity of the state

    A modem derivative form of the ancient contra pacem clause; found, and sometimes legally required, in a criminal indictment. Whatever real significance such terms might once have had, they are today mere formalisms….

  • Constructive Amendment Of Indictment

    Constructive Amendment Of Indictment

    Meaning of Constructive Amendment of Indictment Resources See Also Indictment Information