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arraignment

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arraignment

English legal term signifying the calling of the prisoner to the bar of the court to plead ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’ to the indictment against him or her. It corresponds to the Scottish legal term ‘calling the diet’.



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Her innocent arraignment of his true purposes was unanswerable.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
He saw, at once, that this wily savage had some secret agency in their present arraignment before the nation, and determined to throw every possible impediment in the way of the execution of his sinister plans.
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At the arraignment I pleaded 'Not guilty,' and well I might, for I was indicted for felony and burglary; that is, for feloniously stealing two pieces of brocaded silk, value #46, the goods of Anthony Johnson, and for breaking open his doors; whereas I knew very well they could not pretend to prove I had broken up the doors, or so much as lifted up a latch.
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