{"id":13724,"date":"2018-02-12T04:25:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T04:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=13724"},"modified":"2018-02-12T04:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T04:25:28","slug":"no-bill-an-indorsement-by-a-grand-jury-on-a-bill-of-indictment-indicating-not-found-or-not-a-true-bill-the-party-is-then-discharged-without-further-answer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=13724","title":{"rendered":"No Bill – an indorsement by a grand jury on a bill of indictment, indicating “not found” or “not a true bill”; the party is then discharged without further answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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no bill<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span>
\nn<\/em>. (18c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A grand jury<\/a>‘s notation that insufficient evidence exists for an indictment<\/a> on a criminal charge<\/strong> <the grand jury returned a no bill instead of the indictment the prosecutors expected>.<\/strong> <the grand jury no-billed three of the charges>. \u2014 no-bill<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, vb<\/em>. [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An indorsement<\/a> by a grand jury<\/a> on an indictment<\/a>, indicating “not found” or “not a true bill.”<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. An indorsement<\/a> meaning not found or not a true bill<\/a>, which a grand jury<\/a> enters on an indictment<\/a> when it declines to indict.<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

not a true bill<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. An indorsement<\/a> that a grand jury<\/a> enters on a bill of indictment<\/a> when it declines to indict.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

not found<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Words placed on a bill of indictment<\/a>, meaning that the grand jury<\/a> has insufficient evidence to support a true bill<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. An indorsement<\/a> that a grand jury<\/a> enters on a bill of indictment<\/a> when it declines to indict.<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

ignoramus<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n[Law Latin] (16c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1<\/strong>. Hist<\/em>. We do not know.\u00a0 *\u00a0 This notation, when written on a\u00a0 bill of indictment<\/a>, indicated the grand jury<\/a> rejection of the bill.<\/strong> [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Excerpt from William Blackstone’s<\/span> Commentaries on the Law of England<\/em><\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “When the grand jury<\/a> have heard the evidence<\/a>, if they think it a groundless accusation, they used formerly to endorse on the back of the bill, “ignoramus,” or, we know nothing of it: intimating that, though the facts might possibly be true, that truth did not appear to them: but now they assert in English, more absolutely, ‘not a true bill:” and then the party is discharged without farther answer.<\/span>“<\/strong> [4]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0Deluxe Tenth Edition\u00a0by Henry Campbell Black & Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner<\/a>. ISBN: 978-0-314-62130-6<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/strong>with Pronunciations
\n<\/b><\/span><\/em>Third Edition<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>by James A. Ballantine\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0\u00a0Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/b><\/span><\/strong>Legal Assistant Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>
\nby Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[4]: 4 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England<\/em><\/a> 301 (1769).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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