The word 'presentment' is correct and usable in written English.
Presentment is a noun that refers to an offering of goods or services, typically made for sale or trade. For example, you could say "The store's presentment of fresh fruits and vegetables was especially impressive."
The first clause specifies that "[n]o person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger".
This "grand jury" provision requires a body to make a formal "presentment" or "indictment" of a person accused of committing a crime against the laws of the federal government.
The requirement that, in cases of sudden death, the local community should identify the body as English ("presentment of Englishry")—and, therefore, of little account or face heavy fines reveals a state of unrest between the Norman conquerors and their English subjects.
I also happened to be in a car with this quasi-college coach on the morning after the grand-jury presentment against Sandusky was made public.
Spanier talks about events after the grand-jury presentment came out: On Sunday night, we had a meeting of the board of trustees ….
The most galling, described in graphic detail in a twenty-three-page grand-jury presentment, involved the alleged rape of a ten-year-old boy in the team's showers, in 2002.
Around the same time of that car ride, we now know from Posnanski, Scott Paterno tried to get his father to read the presentment, and the once sainted JoePa resisted, failing to see the big picture.
Our friend says, incidentally, that the guest line is always routed past four separate portraits of Mr. & Mrs. Coolidge climaxed by an elegant presentment of the President above the dining-room mantel.
Spanier says that he didn't know that Mike McQueary, a former Penn State football star, had made the initial report: I only learned that Mike McQueary was associated with this two days after the grand jury presentment came out last November, by reading it in the newspaper.
I either heard or surmised it had something to do with that [2001] incident, but I didn't know the magnitude of it.5 In fact, until I read the grand jury presentment very quickly on Saturday, November 5th, [2011], I think it would have been, I had no idea that it was anything about more than that one shower.
