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==Origin==

==Origin==

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French accuser, from [[Latin]] accusare to call to account, from ad- + causa lawsuit

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French accuser, from [[Latin]] accusare to call to account, from ad- + causa lawsuit

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1: to charge with a fault or [[offense]] : blame

*1: to charge with a fault or [[offense]] : blame

*2: to charge with an offense [[judicially]] or by a [[public]] [[process]]  

*2: to charge with an offense [[judicially]] or by a [[public]] [[process]]  

==Description==

==Description==

A [[criminal]] '''accusation''' is the [[process]] of [[declaring]] one's [[belief]] in another's liability for that other's criminal [[action]](s). A criminal accusation may be informally made through a [[declaration]] made to the [[public]] at large (generally through news media) or by the filing of a [[formal]] accusation in a [[court]] of [[law]] by a [[person]] legally entitled to do so, generally on behalf of the [[state]] by a criminal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor prosecutor].

A [[criminal]] '''accusation''' is the [[process]] of [[declaring]] one's [[belief]] in another's liability for that other's criminal [[action]](s). A criminal accusation may be informally made through a [[declaration]] made to the [[public]] at large (generally through news media) or by the filing of a [[formal]] accusation in a [[court]] of [[law]] by a [[person]] legally entitled to do so, generally on behalf of the [[state]] by a criminal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor prosecutor].

==See also==

==See also==

*'''''[[Indictment]]'''''

*'''''[[Indictment]]'''''

[[Category: Law]]

[[Category: Law]]