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Official conducting inquests
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coroner
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A coroner is a person whose standard role is to confirm and certify the death of an individual within a jurisdiction . A coroner may also conduct or order an inquest into the manner or cause of death , and investigate or confirm the identity of an unknown ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN county ▪ The Contra Costa County coroner said identification of the dead worker was pending on tests to be completed late Wednesday. ▪ John Toman, ward boss and sheriff, begat Andrew Toman, county coroner . ■ VERB say ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths. 2 (context Canada US English) A medical doctor who performs autopsies and determines time and cause of death from a scientific standpoint. 3 The administrative head of a sheading.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 12c., from Anglo-French curuner , from Latin custos placitorum coronae , originally the title of the officer with the duty of protecting the property of the royal family, from Latin corona , literally "crown" (see crown (n.)). The duties of the office ...
Usage examples of coroner.
She had been badly stung by bees, but the coroner was sure she had died from shock.
The Dearest Departures facility in Tombstone Canyon was transformed, with a modest capital outlay, to house the offices of the newly appointed Cochise County Coroner, Dr.
The first witness was the coroner of Greenfield County, who was called, in accordance with accepted legal procedure, merely to establish the fact that Miss Hannah Starbuck was dead, and that the corpus delicti which would be referred to throughout the trial was that of Miss Hannah Starbuck.
Her fork balanced in a firm hand, Pristine studied the entree, turned it this way and that in the manner of an inquisitive coroner, then, resigned that the chef could come no closer to her ideals, speared, chewed, and reluctantly swallowed.
Coroner and the jury took on a Hogarthian quality, and those witnesses whom she knew resembled brilliantly cruel caricatures of themselves.
Chevy and a hearse driven by funeral-home owner and Kinderhook county coroner Junior Duckworth.
The coroner had determined that the woman had died first, though there was no way of knowing what might have taken place before her very eyes prior to her death.
The Sawtooth country was rather punctilious in its duty toward the law, and it was generally believed that the coroner would want to see the horse that had caused the tragedy.
Juan Morales has been the Filmore County Coroner for twelve years and a friend of Nick Foley for almost as long.
In the absence of the active and intelligent, the coroner converses with Mr. Tulkinghorn.
While the coroner buttons his great-coat, Mr. Tulkinghorn and he give private audience to the rejected witness in a corner.
The few remaining taels went towards hiring the services of a coroner to officiate at the funeral ceremony, and a carpenter.
He went swinging along valleyward again, as if he did not know he had just swindled a coroner by the closest kind of a shave.
Ian Fitzgerald, the coroner, was busy elsewhere, but Victor Callan, owner of Callan's Funeral Home and the assistant coroner, was helping another officer, Jules Timmerman, scour the ground between the ditch and the nearby woods.
If they could get the coroner to admit that the murder could have occurred closer to eleven-thirty, the prosecution would have a harder time proving that Craig had the opportunity to kill Allison.