INDICTABLE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
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However, such offences were only indictable on a complaint from the husband.
The purpose was to prevent possibly indictable politicians from fleeing the country.
Magistrates' courts already have power to award costs out of central funds when dealing summarily with indictable offences.
Secondly, we used to talk about indictable cases.
The proportion of indictable offences tried in magistrates courts that lead to a prison sentence varies by a factor of 10.
I also regret that clause 21 is applicable only to indictable or either way offences.
For example, in 1953 of men over 21 years of age, 440 out of every 1,000 convicted of indictable offences were given custodial sentences.
It is not surprising that in that county the incidence of indictable offences has practically doubled since 1938.
Personation is rightly an indictable offence punishable with a maximum of two years' imprisonment and an unlimited fine.
We are told that the number of juveniles caught by the police in 1975 was 200,000; that is for indictable offences.
The man is charged with an indictable offence.
One in 100 of them was brought to court and found guilty of an indictable offence.
Very often indictable offences can now be tried before a court of summary jurisdiction.
The available information, which concerns indictable offences known to the police, is set out in the following table.
Last year, roughly one-third of the persons convicted for indictable offences were between the ages of 14 and 21.
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Translations of indictable
in Chinese (Traditional)
可被控告的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
可被控告的…
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