Googling shows: TRUE BILL, practice. These words are endorsed on a bill of indictment, when a grand jury, after having heard the witnesses for the government, are of opinion that there is sufficient cause to put the defendant on his trial. Formerly, the endorsement was Billa vera, when legal proceedings were in Latin; it is still the practice to write on the back of the bill Ignoramus, when the jury do not find it to be a true bill. Vide Grand Jury. A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856. lapiu.bella1@verizon.net wrote: > OK, folks, I need some help with this one. In a Sept 1886 issue of The > Indiana Progress > newspaper that I've been scouring in the Historic Newspaper Collection at > Ancestry.com, > I found the following item in a Court News column. > Tell me what your best guesses are for translating this. > "Com. vs. (male person#1), indict., seduction and F. And B., (female person > #2), prox. True Bill." > I think it says: Commonwealth vs male, indicted for seduction fornication > and bastardy, > female is prosecuting (bringing the charges against the male). I don't know > what True Bill means. > Now remember this is from 1886. Care to guess? This is not a test. I'm doing > some lookups > for a friend. I previously found an obit for the female, who died in 1938, > was born in 1870. I think there was > a son born of that seduction, making the female abt. 15-16 years old at the > time. > Bella > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: http://www.pagenweb.org/~allegheny/index.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >