Count
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Count
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Meaning of Count
A count in an indictment means a paragraph thereof; the usual organizational sub unit of an indictment. An allegation charging a distinct offense. In civil procedure , the term was sometimes used synonymously with declaration; however, in course of time it became a part of a declaration wherein the plaintiff set forth a distinct cause of action. See Ryan v Riddle, 82 S.W. 1117, 109 Mo. App. 115.
Count Alternative Definition
(Fr. comte, from the Latin comes). An earl. It gave way as a distinct title to the Saxon earl, but was retained in countess, viscount, and as the basis of county. Termes de la Ley; 1 Bl. Comm. 398. See "Comes." In Pleading. The plaintiff's statement of his cause of action. This word, derived from the French conte, a narrative, is in our old law books used synonymously with "declaration;" but practice has introduced the following distinction : When the plaintiff's complaint embraces only a single cause of action, and he makes only one statement of it, that statement is called, indifferently, a "declaration" or."count," though the former is the more usual term; but when the suit embraces two or more causes of action, each of which, of course, requires a different statement, or when the plaintiff makes two or more different statements of one and the same cause of action, each several statement is called a "count," and all of them collectively, constitute the "declaration." In all cases, however, in which there are two or more counts, whether there is actually but one cause of action or several, each count purports, upon the face of it, to disclose a distinct right of action, unconnected with that stated in any of the other counts.
Synonyms of Count
noun
accusation
allegation
assertion
averment
case for the prosecution
charge
citation
claim
comes
condemnation
countercharge
crimination
declaration
delation
denunciation
distinct statement
imputation
inculpation
indictment
item
item in the indictment
main charge
particular charge
statement of a cause of action
Associated Concepts: count in an accusatory instrument
omnibus count
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Meaning of Count in Spanish
Description/ translation of count into Spanish: cargo (cada uno de los delitos que se imputan al reo en el escrito de acusación - (indictment); la imputación (charge) puede contener una multiplicidad de counts; multiple counts: pluralidad de cargos[1]
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English Legal System: Count
In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Count:
See indictment.
Concept of "Counter,count"
Traditional meaning of counter,count in the French law history (with some legal use in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in French) To declare; to plead orally. Countamus: we declare.
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Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, "Counter,count", Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson's Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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