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==Origin==
[http://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]
==Definitions==
*1: to charge with a fault or [[offense]] : blame
*2: to charge with an offense [[judicially]] or by a [[public]] [[process]]
==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].
==See also==
*'''''[[Indictment]]'''''
==Origin==
[http://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]
==Definitions==
*1: to charge with a fault or [[offense]] : blame
*2: to charge with an offense [[judicially]] or by a [[public]] [[process]]
==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].
==See also==
*'''''[[Indictment]]'''''
