inquests
Coroners' official hearings
Inquests are formal investigations, typically judicial, into the circumstances of a death or other matter requiring official determination.
A coroner's inquest examines unexplained or suspicious deaths: The inquest ruled it an accidental drowning.
More broadly, any systematic inquiry into failure or wrongdoing: The party held an inquest into their election losses.
Public death investigator
- verdictOfficial court decision
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- juryLegal decision-making body
witness · summons · tribunal · magistrate · adjudication · prosecution · barrister · solicitor
Medical examination after death
- postmortemExamination after death
- deceasedNo longer living
- mortuaryFacility housing corpses
- morgueCorpse holding facility
cadaver · pathologist · toxicology · remains · body · fatality · identification · circumstances
Facts supporting truth
- forensicsScientific crime-scene analysis
- examinationMethodical assessment or review
- probeThorough examination or tool
- scrutinyClose, careful examination
fact-finding · analysis · documentation · records · interviews · reconstruction · timeline · inspection
Of the Middle Ages
- royalOf monarchs
- ecclesiasticalRelating to church matters
- crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
- charterFounding organizational document
landholding · feudal · manorial · dissolution · monastic · Domesday · tenure · escheat
coroner
Public death investigator
jury · witness · summons · tribunal · magistrate · adjudication · prosecution · barrister · solicitor · cross-examination
autopsy
Medical examination after death
- postmortemExamination after death
- deceasedNo longer living
- mortuaryFacility housing corpses
morgue · cadaver · pathologist · toxicology · remains · body · fatality · identification · circumstances · unnatural
evidence
Facts supporting truth
- forensicsScientific crime-scene analysis
- examinationMethodical assessment or review
- probeThorough examination or tool
scrutiny · fact-finding · analysis · documentation · records · interviews · reconstruction · timeline · inspection · discovery
medieval
Of the Middle Ages
- royalOf monarchs
- ecclesiasticalRelating to church matters
- crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
charter · landholding · feudal · manorial · dissolution · monastic · Domesday · tenure · escheat
- criminal courtstrials, courtroom, verdicts, defendants, accused
- death investigationautopsy report, cause of death, death certificate, coroner's office, forensic pathologist
- medieval lawMagna Carta, medieval justice, assize, writ, law codes
- Northern Ireland lawBelfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, devolution, power sharing, peace process
inqueststrials
Formal legal proceedings
criminal trials · prosecutions · litigation · lawsuits · arbitrations
inquestsconclusions
Judgments reached through reasoning
verdicts · resolutions · settlements · closures · determinations
- coroner's inquestJudicial investigation into unexplained deaths