Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Information
1.
The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.
The active
informations
of the intellect. South.
Larger opportunities of
information
. Rogers.
He should get some
information
in the subject he intends to handle. Swift.
3.
(Law)
A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offense against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalf of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand jury. See
Indictment
.