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Bystander

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Talesman

Talesman, a person summoned to act as a juror from amongst the bystanders in the court. Means a person selected from among the bystanders in court to serve as a juror

horizontal privity

covenant 2 : the relationship between the original supplier of a product and an ultimate user or a bystander affected by it used esp. in connection with breaches of warranty

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zone of danger

is in actual physical peril from the negligent conduct of another person NOTE: Some jurisdictions require that a bystander who witnesses a direct injury to another can only recover for negligent infliction of emotional distress if he

tales

tales often attrib [from the Medieval Latin phrase tales de circumstantibus such (persons) of the bystanders; from the use of the phrase in the writ summoning them] : persons added to a jury from

Harlequin

A buffoon dressed in party colored clothes who plays tricks often without speaking to divert the bystanders or an audience a merry andrew originally a droll rogue of Italian comedy

Black-leg

man a 'black-leg' is not actionable unless it can be shown that the word was understood by the bystanders to mean 'a cheating gambler liable to be prosecuted as such', Barnett v. Allen, (1858) 3 H&N 376.

Circumstantibus, Tales de

Circumstantibus, Tales de (so many of the bystanders). In civil and criminal trials, where by reason of the default of the jury, or of challenge, there

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