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Bill of indictment   /bɪl əv ɪndˈaɪtmənt/   Listen
Bill of indictment

noun
1.
A formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense.  Synonym: indictment.





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"Bill of indictment" Quotes from Famous Books



... influence of Franklin. Basing their position on the doctrines of the natural right of men to exercise full self-government and to change their form of government when it became oppressive, the colonies, in this famous document, imitated the English Declaration of Rights of 1689 in drawing up a bill of indictment against George III's government. In this can be discovered every cause of resentment and every variety of {72} complaint which the thirteen colonies were ready to put forward. Practically all were political. There were allusions in plenty to the ...
— The Wars Between England and America • T. C. Smith


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