presentment

1. (law) A statement made on oath by a jury.Examples: "In 1771, a grand jury presentment in Georgia revealed that "Slaves are permitted to rent houses ….""countableuncountable

2. (law) The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them.Examples: "the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, etc."countableuncountable

3. (ecclesiastical law) A formal complaint submitted to a bishop or archdeacon.Examples: "He recognised that there was general resentment of the oppressive conduct of the Forest officers, and made provision for regular inquiries into it, and for presentment of Forest offences to be made at the attachment courts, as a procedure preliminary to the Forest Eyre."countableuncountable

4. (now rare) An artistic representation; a picture.Examples: "Noted among the who's-who in portraiture: Hopkinson's Secretary Hughes, Childe Hassam's Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, Edmund C. Tarbell's Mary at the Harpsichord, Lillian Westcott Hale's child portrait study of Brothers, Frank Benson's Girl in Blue Jacket, and Marion Boyd Allen's presentment of Anna Vaughn Hyatt."archaiccountableuncountable

5. (now rare) The aspect or form in which something presents itself; appearance.Examples: "But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colourless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage."archaiccountableuncountable