Indictable Offence definition:
An offence which the government can opt to cause trial by a more formal process than by summary process.
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Indictable offence:
An offence which, in Canada, is more serious than those which can proceed by summary conviction. This is the Canadian equivalent to the USA "felony".
indictable offence
A serious crime which is generally triable before a judge and jury.
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A hybrid offence is an indictable offence until the Crown elects to proceed by way of summary conviction. The difference is in the process followed.
Cruelty to animals is an indictable offence. A defendant was convicted of a misdemeanor for tying the tongue of a calf so near the root as to prevent its sucking in order to sell the cow at a greater price by giving to her udder the appearance of ...
The legislation on this subject authorizes the payment of the expenses of witnesses and of the prosecutor, both at a preliminary inquiry before justices and at the trial, and in the case of summary conviction for any of the indictable offences in ...
2. The exhibition of an obscene picture is an indictable offence at common law, although not charged to have been exhibited in public, if it be averred that the picture, was exhibited to sundry persons for money. 2 Serg. & Rawle, 91.
Summary conviction offence
In Canada, a less serious offence than indictable offences for which both the procedure and punishment tends to be less onerous.
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Processing of pardons by the National Parole Board generally takes on average 60 days for a summary offence and 180 days for an indictable offence.
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Quasi-criminal action A classification of actions such as violation of a city ordinance that is not also violation of a criminal statute, which are wrongs against the public punishable through fines but are not usually indictable offences.
Crimes are divided into minor offences (which may be tried in the District Court) and indictable offences, which are tried by a judge and jury in the Circuit Court or Central Criminal Court.
 See also: Law, Court, Public, Person, Criminal
  
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