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To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.

The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title. Many of the changes, by a great misnomer, called parliamentary "reforms". Burke. The word "synonym" is fact a misnomer. Whatel

made) to a superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the statement be false.

elayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him.

ege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty. Kent.

of judicature, a corporation, etc.; as, to present a memorial, petition, remonstrance, or indictment.

a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like; also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an indictment…

ous or medical advisers. (b) A communication which does not expose the party making it to indictment for libel, -- such as those made by persons communicating confidentially with a government, persons consulted confidentially as to the character of servants, etc. -- Privileged debts (Law), those to which a preference…

tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information.

To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment. Blackstone.

or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical. Blackstone.

, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it. And save the expense of long litigious laws, Where suits are traversed, and so little won That he who conquers is but last undone. Dryden. To traverse a yard (Naut.), to brace it fore and aft…