16 examples of indictable in sentences

About the same time Lords Shaftesbury, Russell, and Cavendish presented the Duke of York to the grand jury for Middlesex at Westminster Hall, as indictable, being a Popish recusant.

A more discreditable one, not absolutely indictable, we hope, has seldom issued from the American press.

"Shielding a runaway convict is an indictable offenceto say nothing of altering his appearance.

But did not the verdict of the jury show, that the doctrine of calling masters to an account was entirely novel, as it only pronounced him "Guilty, subject to the opinion of the court, if immoderate correction of a slave by his master be a crime indictable!"

The sufferers parade their miseries, tear the lint from their bruises, reveal their indictable crimes, that you may pity them.

[We consider an experiment requiring twenty-five hundred atmospheres, when the thermometer marks 93° in the shade, indictable at common law.

It has been decided by the highest courts of the slave states generally, that assault and battery upon a slave is not indictable as a criminal offence.

It has been decided by the highest courts of the slave states generally, that assault and battery upon a slave is not indictable as a criminal offence.

Mr. Straight contended that the good intentions of a publisher could not be taken as proving that a book was not indictable, and laid stress on the cheapness of the work, "the price charged is so little as sixpence".

That the advocacy of non-life-destroying checks to population is not an offence either at common law or by statute, and that the manner in which that advocacy is raised in the said book, 'The Fruits of Philosophy', is not such as makes it an indictable offence.

The ruling of the Lord Chief Justice that a book written with pure intention and meant to convey useful knowledge might yet be obscene, drew from me a pamphlet entitled, "Is the Bible Indictable?", in which I showed that the Bible came clearly within the judge's ruling.

[the striking of a slave] were not indictable.

Yet, for that offence, once criminal to my taste, I find myself hereby about to become indictable; and do set my hand and seal, on this day of the recall of my dearest literary oath, in this year of eminent autobiographical examples, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

His face is indictable at common law.

It is true the Blasphemy Laws are not yet repealed; it may be true for all I know that Christianity is still part and parcel of the common law; it is possibly an indictable offence to lend Literature and Dogma and God and the Bible to a friend; but, however these things may be, Mr. Bradlaugh's stock-in-trade is now free of the market-place, where just at present, at all events, its price is low.

It was an indictable offence to sublet, for then there would be two families where only one was before.

16 examples of  indictable  in sentences