 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1874 - 724 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 in the name of the sovereign, but at the suit of some private prosecutor : and they are only to hear evidence on behalf... | |
 | F. Peel - English language - 1874 - 144 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 in the name of the sovereign, but at the suit of any private prosecutor ; and they are only to hear evidence on behalf... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 858 pages
...of their inquiry, by a charge from the judge who presides upon the bench. They then withdrew, to sit stretched "to the asserting of all proclamations, and orders of state: sovereign, but at the suit of any private prosecutor; and they are only to hear evidence on behalf... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1876 - 658 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1228 pages
...their inquiry, by a charge from the judge who presides upon the bench. They then withdraw to sit nnrt receive indictments, which are preferred to them in...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... | |
 | Adhémar Esmein - Criminal procedure - 1882 - 622 pages
...rappelle les franches vérités du pays flamand. Les Normands apportèrent avec (1) « Indictments are preferred to them in the name of the King but at the sunit of any private prosecutor. » Blakstone, IV, p. 303. eux cette vieille coutume (1), dont on peut... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1883 - 908 pages
...They then withdraw to sit, and receive indictments, which are pref erred in the name of the Queen, but at the suit of any private prosecutor, and they...only to hear evidence on the part of the prosecution : for the finding of an indictment k only in the nature of an inquiry or accusation, afterwards to... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - Law - 1888 - 772 pages
...then withdraw to eit, and receive indictment«, which are preferred in the name of the government, but at the suit of any private prosecutor, and they...only to hear evidence on the part of the prosecution: for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an inquiry or accusation, afterwards to be... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely - Law - 1889 - 800 pages
...judge. They then withdraw to sit, and receive indictments, which are preferred in the name of the Queen, but at the suit of any private prosecutor, and they...only to hear evidence on the part of the prosecution : for the finding of an indictment is only in the nature of an inquiry or accusation, afterwards to... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...their inquiry by a charge froiu the judge who presides upon 31 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... 
