Presentment

A presentment can be defined as the act of presenting to an authority a formal statement of a matter to be dealt with.[1]

It can be a formal presentation of a matter such as a complaint, indictment or bill of exchange. In early-medieval England, juries of presentment would hear inquests in order to establish whether someone should be presented for a crime.[2]

In the Church of England Churchwardens' Presentments are reports to the Bishop relating to parishioners' misdemeanors and other things amiss in the parish.[3]

Latin translations
  • presentacione, noun
  • narratio
    • rehearsal, narrative, narration, story, account, presentment
  • narratus
    • story, relating, narration, account, narrative, presentment
  • subiectio
    • presentment, forgery, falsehood, adjunction, attachment
  • subjectio
    • presentment, forgery, falsehood, adjunction, attachment
gollark: This is my phyto-gro machine. It will probably break in a few minutes when some ratios get out of balance, and it's drawing something like 200RF/t.
gollark: Well, if I can find some diamonds and make a quarry to obliterate a chunk or two, maybe some will turn up.
gollark: I can't find any setting related to it off.
gollark: I've gone to an extreme hills and done a lot of mining. No zinc. Sorely tempted to just spawn some.
gollark: For some stupid reason the cell back at the base seems to favour drawing from the reactor buffer above using the local power plant, which is irritating.

References
  1. "Presentment". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  2. Katherine Fischer Drew (2004), Magna Carta, Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 42–43, ISBN 978-0313325908
  3. The Canons of the Church of England. 6th Edition (2000). London: Church House Publishing. p. 165. ISBN 0-7151-3842-1.


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