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BILL OF PARTICULARS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bill of Particulars mean? 

BILL OF PARTICULARS (noun)
  The noun BILL OF PARTICULARS has 1 sense:

1. the particular events to be dealt with in a criminal trial; advises the defendant and the court of the facts the defendant will be required to meetplay

  Familiarity information: BILL OF PARTICULARS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BILL OF PARTICULARS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The particular events to be dealt with in a criminal trial; advises the defendant and the court of the facts the defendant will be required to meet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bill of Particulars" is a kind of...):

allegation; allegement (statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Holonyms ("bill of Particulars" is a part of...):

pleading ((law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding)


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