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plural inquests
A formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death quotations examples
The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected.
1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 4, in The Dust of Conflict
However, the 'accidental death' verdict of the jury in the inquest into the Croydon tram accident of November 2016 is the latest episode in a saga that seems likely to prevent the full story of this eminently preventable disaster from ever being exposed.
2021 August 25, Christian Wolmar, “Croydon tram crash: the questions haven't been answered”, in RAIL, number 938, page 58
An inquiry, typically into an undesired outcome examples
The jury hearing such an inquiry, and the result of the inquiry examples
(rare, obsolete) enquiry; quest; search quotations
the laborious and vexatious inquest that the soul must make after science
1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727
Hauing of late by diligent inquest, Prouided him a sword of meanest sort
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie