Impanel Or Impannel - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: impanel or impannelImpanel, or impannel
Impanel, or impannel, the writing and entering of the names of a jury in a parchment schedule by the sheriff....
Impanelment
The act or process of impaneling or the state of being impaneled...
impanel
impanel or em·pan·el [im-, em-] vt -eled or: -elled -el·ing or: -el·ling : to form (a jury) esp. by summoning and selecting the members ;specif : to enroll (a list of selected jurors) in a court compare array im·pan·el·ment n ...
Array
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....
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 is not a sufficient number of the jurors impanelled, the judge may direct the sheriff to add to the panel the names of a sufficient number of persons qualified to act as jurymen who may be present or can be found, who are called tales de circumstantibus.-(English) County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo. 4, c. 50), s. 37. There is now no statutory limit to the number of jurors who can be impanelled.-(English) County Common Juries Act, 1910 (10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 17)....
Escheator
Escheator [fr. escaetor, Lat.], an officer anciently appointed by the lord treasurer, etc., in every county, to make inquests of titles by escheat, which inquests were to be taken by good and lawful men of the county, impannelled by the sheriff, 4 Inst. 225. See ESCHEAT.A royal officer appointed to assess the value of property escheating to crown, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 564....
Recognitors
Recognitors, the jury impannelled in an assize; so called because they acknowledged a disseisin by their verdict, Bract. 1, 5....
advisory jury
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. ...
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 ...
empanel
empanel var of impanel ...
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