England and Wales
Historically, defendant was a legal term for a person prosecuted for misdemeanour. It was not not applicable to a person prosecuted for felony.
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“An illiterate king is a crowned ass.”
—Medieval English proverb.
Said by the chronicler William of Malmesbury to have been much used by King Henry I of England (1068-1135)
“I just come and talk to the plants, really—very important to talk to them, they respond I find.”
—Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948)