indictable

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Under English and Welsh law, a citizen's arrest can only be used for an "indictable" offence - a serious crime tried at the Crown Court.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2025

“Can say as a prosecutor this would be an indictable case etc.”

From Reuters • May 22, 2023

Wearing military garb after you've left the service isn't indictable, neither is using military slang, and neither is singlemindedness to the point of being blind to what you're really doing.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2022

His lawyer told the court Houston would be pleading not guilty to the charge of concealing a serious indictable offense of another person, his late preacher father Frank Houston.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2021

Finally, after a picture of a monkey stealing a pear proved to be an indictable offense, the subject was abandoned as being altogether too expensive a luxury.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber