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Decem tales (ten such). If, when a trial at bar (see BAR, TRIAL AT) is called on, a sufficient number of jurors do not attend, the trial must be adjourned, and a decem or octo tales, according to the number deficient, awarded, as at Common Law; for the County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo. 4, c. 50), s. 37, which allows the tales de circumstantibus, is expressly confined to trials at Nisi Prius and the assizes, 1 Chit. Arch. Pract.