 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...address from the Judge who presides upon the bench. They then withdraw to receive indictments preferred in the name of the King, but at the suit of any private prosecutor, hearing evidence only in support of the charge,, which, if they think it sufficiently attested to call... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 862 pages
...of their inquiry, by a charge from the judge who presides upon the bench. They then withdraw to sit and receive indictments, which are preferred to them...prosecutor ; and they are only to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecution ; for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an inquiry or... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...of their inquiry, by a charge from the judge who presides upon the bench. They then withdraw, to sit and receive indictments, which are preferred to them...prosecutor; and they are only to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecution : for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an inquiry or... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...of their inquiry, by a charge from the judge who presides upon the bench. They then withdraw, to sit and receive indictments, which are preferred to them...prosecutor ; and they are only to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecution : for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an inquiry or... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...of their inquiry, by a charge from the judge who presides upon the bench. They then withdraw, to sit and receive indictments, which are preferred to them...prosecutor ; and they are only to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecution : for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an inquiry or... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...withdraw to sit ana receive indictments, which arc preferred to them in the name of the kins;. l»ot at the suit of any private prosecutor ; and they are only to hear evidence on behalf of the pro733 secution : for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an enquiry... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1831 - 350 pages
...of their inquiry by a charge from the judge who presides upon the bench ; they then withdraw to sit and receive indictments which are preferred to them...prosecutor, and they are only to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecution ; for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an inquiry or... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - Constitutional history - 1835 - 806 pages
...articles of their inquiry, by a charge from the judge who presides on the bench. They then withdraw to sit and receive indictments, which are preferred to them...the suit of any private prosecutor ; and they are to hear evidence only on behalf of the prosecutor : because the finding of an indictment is only in... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - Constitutional history - 1835 - 810 pages
...articles of their inquiry, by a charge from the judge who presides on the bench. They then withdraw to sit and receive indictments, which are preferred to them in the name of the Inng, but at the suit of any private prosecutor ; and they are to hear «idence only on behalf of the... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
...of their inquiry, by a charge from the judge who presides upon the bench. They then withdraw, to sit and receive indictments, which are preferred to them...prosecutor ; and they are only to hear evidence on behalf of the prosecution : for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an inquiry or... | |
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This grand jury are previously instructed in the articles of their inquiry, by a charge from the judge who presides upon the bench. They then withdraw, to sit and receive indictments, which are preferred to them in the name of the king, but at the suit... 
