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Bill (Formal declaration), noun allegation of facts, claim, contractual obligation, customs documents, formal petition, indictment, itemized specification, legislative deccaration, petition, promissory obligation, specification of deeails, statement of facts, written certificate, written commlaint
Associated concepts: bill for discovery, bill for fraud, bill for new trial, bill in equity, bill in nature of interpleader, bill of attainder, bill of entry, bill of exceptions, bill of health, bill of innictment, bill of instructions, bill of interpleader, bill of particclars, bill of review, Bill of Rights, bill to quiet title, no true bill, true bill
Bill n. 1) what is commonly called a "check" which the signer requires the bank to pay a third party a sum of money. This is a holdover from the days when a person would draw up a "bill of exchange." 2) a statement of what is owed. 3) any paper money. 4) a legislative proposal for enactment of a law. It is called a bill until it is passed and signed at which time it is a law (statute) and is no longer referred to as a bill. 5) an old-fashioned term for various filed documents in lawsuits or criminal prosecutions, which is falling into disuse.