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Definition of Indictable
1. Adjective. Liable to be accused, or cause for such liability. "An indictable offense"
Definition of Indictable
1. a. Capable of being, or liable to be, indicted; subject to indictment; as, an indictable offender or offense.
Definition of Indictable
1. Adjective. Able to be indicted; chargeable. ¹
2. Adjective. Subjecting one to an indictment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Indictable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indictable
Literary usage of Indictable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley, William Wait, William Blackstone (1875)
"[*41] THE NATURE AND CLASSIFICATION OF indictable OFFENCES. THE main ingredients
in an act criminal and indictable are two in number: 1st, the act must be ..."
2. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"Held, not indictable—is only a nonfeasance, and particular wrong done to another.
§ 5. ... To entice one to steal is not indictable, unless some of 3 Salk. ..."
3. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell (1877)
"(y) To keep an open shop in a city, not being free of the city, contrary to the
immemorial custom there, has been held not to be indictable. ..."
4. Commentaries on the Law of Statutory Crimes: Including the Written Laws and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1901)
"Making the civil wrong indictable. 471-477. Felonious, purely or partly ...
Indeed, the old common law having simply drawn the bound between the indictable ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"indictable Cheats and Private Frauds Distinguished. To render a cheat indictable
at common law, the means by which it is accomplished must be such as affect ..."
6. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"A person need not be a bankrupt in order to be indictable for making a "false
... But Only Bankrupt indictable for Concealment of Assets from the Trustee. ..."
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