Its procedure was inquisitory rather than accusative.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
More directly connected with the commercial and colonial interests of the realm were the subcommittees which the Privy Council used during these years and earlier as advisory and inquisitory bodies.
"British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations, 1622-1675"
Charles M. Andrews
Modern and commodious itself, it looked from its balcony at serried and mismatched and quaintly-named haunts of old provincial, of sedately passive rather than confidently eager, traffic; but this made, among us, for much harmless inquisitory life-while we were fairly assaulted, at home, by the scale and some of the striking notes of our fine modernity.
"A Small Boy and Others"
Henry James