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advisory jury : a jury impaneled at the discretion of a trial judge to assist the judge in deciding a case NOTE: Advisory juries are allowed in cases in which there is no right to a jury or in which the right to a jury has been waived. The judge may follow or disregard the advisory jury's verdict. ...
jury
jury pl: ju·ries [Anglo-French juree, from feminine past participle of Old French jurer to swear, from Latin jurare, from jur- jus law] : a body of individuals sworn to give a decision on some matter submitted to them ;esp : a body of individuals selected and sworn to inquire into a question of fact and to give their verdict according to the evidence occasionally used with a pl. verb [the are always to decide whether the inference shall be drawn "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr."] see also advisory jury, array, grand jury, inquest, jury nullification, petit jury, special jury, trial jury, venire Amendment VI to the Constitution in the back matter NOTE: The jury of American and English law most likely originated in early Anglo-Norman property proceedings, where a body of 12 knights or freemen who were from the area, and usually familiar with the parties, would take an oath and answer questions put to them by a judge in order to determine property rights. Jury verdicts began to be us...
Advisory board
Advisory board, means a Central or a State advisory board or a district and city level advisory board, as the case may be, constituted under s. 62. [Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (56 of 2000), s. 2 (a)]...
Advisory Council
Advisory Council, means the Central Advisory Council established under s. 5. [Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951), s. 3(a)]...
Research Advisory Committee
Research Advisory Committee, means the Research Advisory Committee of the University, [Central Agricultural University Act, 1992 (40 of 1992), s. 2(o)]...
advisory
advisory 1 : having or exercising power to advise [an committee] 2 : containing or giving advice [an verdict] ...
advisory opinion
advisory opinion see opinion ...
Advisory Committee
Advisory Committee, means a committee formed to make suggestions to some other body or to an official, esp., any one of five committees that propose Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure amendment to federal court rules, the five committees being responsible for appellate, bankruptcy, civil, criminal, and evidence rules, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 55....
Jury
Jury [fr. jurata, Lat.; jure, Fr.], a number of persons sworn to deliver a verdict upon evidence delivered to them touching the issue.Trial by jury may be traced to the earliest Anglo-Saxon times. One of the judicial customs of the Saxons was that a man might be cleared of an accusation of certain crimes, if an appointed number of persons (juratores, or more properly compurgatores) came forward and swore to a veredictum, that they believed him innocent. It is remarkable that for accusations of any consequence among the Saxons on the continent, twelve juratores was the number required for an acquittal. Similar customs may be observed in the laws of Athens and Rome, where dikaotai and judices answer to jurors, an of the continental Angli and Frisiones, though the number of jurors varied.See, as to the introduction and growth of trial by jury in England, Forsyth's History of Trial by Jury; and for comments on and proposed amendments of the law, see Erle's Jury Laws and their Amendment, pu...
Special jury
Special jury, a jury consisting of persons who, in addition to the ordinary qualifications, are of a certain station in society as esquires, bankers, merchants, etc. The Jurors Act, 1870, s. 6, provides that every man whose name shall be on the jurors' book for any county in England or Wales, or for the county of the City of London, and who shall be legally entitled to be called an esquire, or shall be a person of higher degree, or shall be a banker or merchant, or who shall occupy a private dwelling-house rated or assessed to the poor rate, or to the inhabited house duty, on a value of not less than 100l. in a town containing, according to the census then next preceding the preparation of the jury list, 20,000 inhabitants and upwards, or rated or assessed to the poor rate, or to the inhabited house duty, on a value of not less than 50l. elsewhere, or who shall occupy premises other than a farm, rated or assessed as aforesaid on a value of not less than 100l., or a farm rated or assess...
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