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Definition of Indictors
1. indictor [n] - See also: indictor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indictors
Literary usage of Indictors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Criminal Pleading by Thomas Starkie (1814)
"I. How far the Indictment should shew the Offence to be within the Jurisdiction
of the indictors. I. Of the Locality of Crimes at Common Law, p. to 6. II. ..."
2. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Robert Phillimore (1842)
"Although the statute provides expressly for indictors in the turns only; yet it
extends as well to indictors in all other courts, and to all witnesses, ..."
3. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn, Edward Ingersoll, William Axton Stokes (1847)
"The indictment must be under the seals of the indictors, and by twelve jurors at
... 17. it must be by rolls indented between the sheriff and the indictors, ..."
4. Reeves' History of the English Law: From the Time of the Romans, to the End by John Reeves, William Francis Finlason (1879)
"A doubt might be raised who were meant by the indictors: and it seems that it
signified not only the jurors who presented, but those also who were sworn to ..."
5. History of the English Law: From the Time of the Saxons, to the End of the by John Reeves (1814)
"A doubt might be raised who were meant by the indictors ; and it seems, that it
signified not only the jurors who presented, but those also who were sworn ..."
6. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"However, the notion is growing that a man's ' indictors' will not be impartial
when they try him. Britton allows the accused, in case of felony, ..."
7. Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third by Alfred John Horwood, Luke Owen Pike (1889)
"indictors and others. Willoughby did not deny this, but threw the blame upon the
Sheriff, whose duty it was to cause a good jury to come. ..."
8. A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law by James Bradley Thayer (1898)
"Four others said that they were indictors. Another one said that when the ...
The justice seems to have pleaded nolo contenders, and the indictors were held ..."
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