...presented to the grand jury, while "presentment" was "the notice taken by a grand jury of any effense from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of Indictment laid before them at the suit of the king." 4 Blackstone's Conwnentaries 275 (New ed. 1813). "Reports" on the other hand...

...Technically, the grand jury has the power to override or bypass the prosecutor and act on its own." But it I from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them •I the suit of the king." 4 Blackstone, COMMENTARIKS* 301. The common Uw presentment must be distinguished...

...was "the notice taken, or statement made, by a grand jury of any offense or unlawful state of affairs from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them" (W2). Through a historical transference of meaning, indictment, which originally referred to the accusation...

...says he, " known to our penal code, is that -which is originated by the presentment of a grand jury. A . 7 : : : :h knowlege or observation, without any bill of indictment being laid before them at the suit of the commonwealth....

...Jury." US Const. Amend. V. 3 See 4 Blackstone, Commentaries 298, describing presentments as follows: "A presentment, properly speaking, is the notice taken by a grand jury of any offense from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them ....

...PRESENTMENT. This word has various significations. In its relation to criminal matters it signifies the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from...observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the king; as the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, am PRESUMPTION (presumptio). That...

...presented to the grand jury, while "presentments" were "the notice taken by the grand jury of any offense from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the king."200 It is clear that in the limited case of the special grand juries convened...

...in order to put a defendant upon his trial. I. By presentment. 29 II. By indictment. A presentment is the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation upon which the officer of the court must afterwards frame an indictment before the party presented...

...of the jurors. Blackstone defines a presentment as "the notice taken by a grand jury of any offense from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before th°m at the suit of the king." (3 Blackstone's Commentaries, 301.) 2 Hawkins Pleas of the Crown, chapter...