Impanelment

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 ...

Impanel, or impannel

Impanel, or impannel, the writing and entering of the names of a jury in a parchment schedule by the sheriff....

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)....

The act or process of impaneling or the state of being impaneled...

Juryman

One who is impaneled on a jury or who serves as a juror...

Questa

Questa, means a quest; an inquest or inquiry upon the oaths of an impanelled jury, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259....

Jury of matrons

Jury of matrons is a jury composed entirely of matrons, which is impaneled in two cases only: (1) upon a writ de ventre inspiciendo, which see; (2) where a female prisoner is condemned to be executed, and pleads pregnancy as a ground to postpone the completion of the sentence until after her confinement. Upon this a jury of matrons, or discreet women, inquire into the plea; should they bring in their verdict that the prisoner is enceinte, the execution is stayed until the birth of the child, after which, as a rule, the Crown commutes the punishment....

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