Brewer's: Proces-Verbal

. A minute and official statement of some fact.

“We (says the procès-verbal) asked him what use he had made of the pistol [i.e. We, says the official report, etc.].” —The Times (Law Report).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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