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Array [fr. aredare, It., to get ready], to rank or set forth a jury of men impannelled upon a cause. to challenge the array of the pannel is at once to except against all persons arrayed or impannelled, in respect of partiality or some default in the sheriff, Co. Litt. 156 a. If the sheriff to be affinity to any of the parties, or if anyone or more of the jurors are returned at the nomination of either party, or for any other partiality, the array shall be quashed, See Archbold's Criminal Pleading....
Array, Military Commission of
Array, Military Commission of. Previous to the reign of Henry VIII., in order to protect the kingdom from domestic insurrections or foreign invasions, it was usual from time to time for our princes to issue commissions of array, and send into every county officers in whom they could confide, to muster, array, or set in military order the inhabitants of every district. The form of the commission was settled by 5 Hen. 4, so as to prevent the insertion therein of any new penal clauses, Rushworth, Hist. Coll., vol. Iv., pp. 662, 667....
array
array : to set (a jury) for trial ;specif : to set (a jury) by calling out the names of the jurors one at a time compare impanel n : the group of people summoned to serve as jurors from which the jury will be chosen ;also : a list of the jurors' names see also challenge to the array at challenge compare venire ...
challenge to the array
challenge to the array see challenge ...
Challenge to the array
Challenge to the array, is the taking of exception to the whole panel of persons returned by the summoning officer by reason of matter personal to himself, and is either a principal challenge (on the ground of any partiality in the officer concerned in the summoning and return of the jury, as, for instance, if such officer is biased or has acted improperly) or 'for favour', where the position of the Summoning Officer is not necessarily inconsistent with indifference, but may be suspected, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 11(2), para 985, p. 829....
Commission of array
Commission of array, issue to send into every county officers to muster or set in military order the inhabitants. The introduction of commissions of lieutenancy, which contained in substance the same powers as these commissions, superseded them, 2 Steph. Com....
Challenge
Challenge [fr. Challenger, O. F., to accuse of], an exception taken either against things or jurors.In civil actions, when a full jury appear, either party may challenge them for cause, as well the talesmen as the jurors originally returned. Challenges are of two kinds: (1) to the array; (2) to the polls; and each of these is again subdivided into principal challenges, and challenges to the favour.(1) A challenge to the array is an exception to all the jurors returned by the sheriff collectively, not for any defect in them, but for some partiality or default in the sheriff or his under-officer who arrayed the panel; this is either (a) a principal challenge, as that the sheriff or other returning officer is of kindred or affinity to the plaintiff of defendant, if the affinity continue; that one or more of the jury are returned at the nomination of the plaintiff or defendant; that an action of battery is pending at the suit of the plaintiff or defendant against the sheriff, or at the sui...
Principal challenge
Principal challenge, a species of challenge to the array made on account of partiality or some default in the sheriff or his under-officer who arrayed the panel. See CHALLENGE....
Lieutenancy, Commission of
Lieutenancy, Commission of. See COMMISSIONOF ARRAY....
Fyrd, fyrdung
Fyrd, fyrdung, the military array or land force of the whole country. Contribution to the fyrd was one of the imposts forming the trinoda necessitas....
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