laying information

'Undergoing interrogation, laying information, or just passing the time of day, Major?'

Finally, the story of the appearance might be explained as an excuse for laying information against the overseer, already suspected on other grounds.

But Mr. Suttar thinks that Farley invented the tale as an excuse for laying information.

He saw all the force of what Phoebe had previously urged, and ranged himself on her side, even going so far as to talk of laying information with the nearest magistrate.

By seasonal summer the quaestiones will be in session, and every place where a quaestio sits will be plastered with posters advertising the joys and financial rewards of laying information.

He had even timed things so that I'd be on my way home alone from my club when the theft occurred, so he had no reason to worry about laying information at Bow Street against me."