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Definition of Presentments
1. presentment [n] - See also: presentment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presentments
Literary usage of Presentments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Copyhold, Customary Freehold, and Ancient Demesne Tenure: With by John Scriven, Henry Stalman (1846)
"SECTION V. Of the Jury and their presentments. ... But he also says in the same
page, that though presentments by twelve shall not be traversed, ..."
2. Publications of the Southampton Record Society by Southampton Record Society (1908)
"The presentments. If the jurors finish all their enquiries, arrive at verdicts
concerning them, turn their verdicts into presentments, and reduce their ..."
3. The Jurisdiction of the Court Leet: Exemplified in the Articles which the by Joseph Ritson (1809)
"OF presentments. Th'e presentments are to be sealed with the seals of the jurors,
so that none may'do fraud by increasing or diminishing them. Mirror, c. 1. ..."
4. An Account of the Most Important Public Records of Great Britain: And the by Charles Purton Cooper (1832)
"Who have appropriated to themselves the taking of Toll, or usurped Free Warren,
Chaces, Parks, &c. without having a warrant for the same. Also presentments ..."
5. An Account of the Most Important Public Records of Great Britain: And the by Charles Purton Cooper (1832)
"Who have appropriated to themselves the taking of Toll, or usurped Free Warren,
Chaces, Parks, &c. without having a warrant for the same. Also presentments ..."
6. The Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart.: Delivered by Robert Peel (1853)
"IRISH GRAND JURY presentments BILL. FEBRUARY 9, 1819. Mr. Dawson having brought
up a petition from the county of Londonderry, praying for the revision of ..."
7. Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition by Luke Potter Poland, John Scott (1872)
"presentments ly the grand jury. OFFICE OF UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT FOR SOUTH
CAROLINA, Columbia, January 10, 1872. SIR : In reply to your letter asking ..."
8. Rights of Common and Other Prescriptive Rights: Being Twenty-four Lectures by Joshua Williams (1880)
"The Court held that the presentments of the homage were entitled to no weight;
they were in their ..."
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