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Home Dictionary Name: juroralternate juror
alternate juror a juror who is selected in the same manner as a regular juror and hears the evidence in a case along with the regular jurors, but does not help decide the case unless called upon to replace a regular juror. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...
juror
juror : a member of a jury [an alternate ] ;broadly : an individual who is summoned but not yet selected to serve on a jury ...
petit juror
petit juror : a member of a petit jury ...
Juror
Juror, one who serves on a jury....
Withdrawal of juror
Withdrawal of juror. When a jury cannot agree upon a verdict, or even merely for the sake of compromise, one of them is often withdrawn by consent of the litigants, so as to put an end to the proceedings; but there may be a re-trial on breach of terms, Thomas v. Exeter, etc., Co., (1887) 18 QBD 822....
grand juror
grand juror : a member of a grand jury ...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
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 when the original jury panel has become deficient in number, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1467....
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...
Mansfield rule
Mansfield rule, the doctrine that a Juror's testimony or affidavit about juror misconduct may not be used to challenge the verdict. This Mansfield rule as intended to ensure that jurors are heard through their verdict, not through their post verdict testimony. In practice the rule lessons the possibility that losing parties will seek to penetrate the secrets of the jury room. The rule of first announced in Vaise v. Delaval, 99 Eng Rep 944 (KB 1785), in an opinion by William Murray, first Earl of Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 976....
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