indictable
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8.5
- adjective
- /ɪnˈdaɪtəbl/
- Formal
:
delito procesable
- Most state courts eventually held that until quickening, abortion was not an indictable offense, though the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held in 1846, and reaffirmed in 1850 (later followed by the Supreme Court of North Carolina) that it was.
- indictable offense
Examples
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... were all indictable for obstruction of justice.
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Among other things, subsection 1 covers everyone who conspires with anyone to commit an indictable offense or an offense punishable upon summary conviction.
Academic text (1991) -
"Not even indictable," Hardy agreed.
Fiction book (1999) -
Is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for two years.
Academic text (1991) -
The early investigation seems to indicate that a batch of this indictable steroid was contaminated coming out of the pharmacy.
Blog text (18) -
Fitzherbert agreed that blocking the highway was a criminal matter, an indictable infringement of the rights of the Crown and public.
Academic text (1998) -
Does the judge see probable cause that Fannie Willis or a member of her staff has committed an indictable offense?
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Succinctly stated, it is an indictable offense for two or more persons to conspire, combine, agree, or arrange to prevent or lessen competition unduly.
Academic text (1991) -
In fact, crimes against humanity were conceived of for largely technical reasons: they were an effort to include among the indictable offenses the persecution of various groups (such as German Jews, for example) — acts that might otherwise, because of the victims' nationality, escape prosecution.
Academic text (1997) -
Committing an indictable offense can lead to serious legal consequences, including a lengthy prison sentence.
Synonyms
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7.2
Able to be accused and tried in court for a crime
How Liable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Indictable comes from indict, which has the root dict meaning 'say', the same root you see in dictate and dictionary. Long ago, to 'indict' was to 'say officially' that someone had done a crime, so indictable means 'able to be formally accused' in a court.