Definition of "informations"

That friend […] added, with a smile, that he had more than once amused himself with the thought of a verbarian Attorney-General, authorized to bring informations ex officio against the writer or editor of any work in extensive circulation, who, after due notice issued, should persevere in misusing a word.

1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On the Constitution of the Church and State

'We have another deposition, doctor, to take; Mr. Irons, here, is prepared to swear informations of very singular importance.'

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

The second formal method of charging someone with a crime is by information. Informations are filed by prosecutors without grand jury review.

2011, Daniel E. Hall, Criminal Law and Procedure