English Dictionary

presentment

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹɪˈzɛntmənt/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 古語

(law) A statement made on oath by a jury. / (law) The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them.

日本語の意味

（法）陪審員が宣誓のもとに行う陳述。 / （法）大陪審が起訴状を伴わず、自己の観察または知識に基づいて採った犯罪に関する告発通知。

The judge accepted the presentment from the grand jury and scheduled an arraignment.

裁判官は大陪審の宣誓陳述を受理し、起訴のための審問を予定した。

意味（1）

(law) A statement made on oath by a jury.

In 1771, a grand jury presentment in Georgia revealed that Slaves are permitted to rent houses ….

意味（2）

(law) The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them.

the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, etc.

意味（3）

(ecclesiastical law) A formal complaint submitted to a bishop or archdeacon.

He recognised that there was general resentment of the oppressive conduct of the Forest officers, and made provision for regular inquiries into it, and for presentment of Forest offences to be made at the attachment courts, as a procedure preliminary to the Forest Eyre.

意味（4）

The act of presenting something for acceptance; now specifically, presenting something (e.g. a bill or cheque) for payment.

When online bill presentment, which removes all the paperwork, becomes widespread, says McKinsey's Stephenson, online banking will be far more compelling.

意味（5）

(now rare) An artistic representation; a picture.

Noted among the who's-who in portraiture: Hopkinson's Secretary Hughes, Childe Hassam's Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, Edmund C. Tarbell's Mary at the Harpsichord, Lillian Westcott Hale's child portrait study of Brothers, Frank Benson's Girl in Blue Jacket, and Marion Boyd Allen's presentment of Anna Vaughn Hyatt.

意味（6）

Presentation of a performance, as of a play or work of music.

意味（7）

(now rare) The aspect or form in which something presents itself; appearance.

But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colourless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.

意味（8）

The official notice (formerly required to be given in court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate.

As to the presentment: that, by the general custom of manors, is to be made at the next court baron immediately after the surrender

presentments （ plural ）