Jury Box - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: jury boxjury box
jury box 1 : the usually enclosed place where the jury sits in a courtroom compare bar, bench, dock, sidebar, stand 2 : a box from which the names of prospective jurors are drawn by chance : jury wheel ...
bar
bar often attrib 1 a : the railing in a courtroom that encloses the area around the judge where prisoners are stationed in criminal cases or where the business of the court is transacted in civil cases compare bench, dock, jury box, stand b : court tribunal [the younger judge brought a fresh viewpoint to the ] 2 a : the whole body of lawyers ;esp : those qualified to practice in the courts of a particular jurisdiction [admitted to the Arizona ] [the bankruptcy ] compare bench b : the profession or occupation of lawyer c : bar examination [passed the ] 3 : something that prevents admission, progress, or action: as a : an intangible impediment, obstacle, or barrier [the restrictive covenant raised a racial ] [consent of the victim is a to conviction] b : the permanent preclusion of a claim or action esp. due to the loss of a previous suit based on the same cause of action and between the same parties [its earlier successful suit against the purchaser for the price was a to...
bench
bench 1 : the place where a judge sits in court [asked counsel to approach the ] compare bar, dock, jury box, sidebar, stand 2 : the court or system of courts serving an area [the state ] [the federal ] 3 a : the office of a judge [appointed to the ] b : the body of persons who hold positions as judges [members of the and bar] compare bar c : a judge or panel of judges hearing a case [unless the lawyer is responding to a question from the "R. H. Bork"] ...
dock
dock [Dutch dialect docke dok pen, cage] : the place in a criminal court where a prisoner stands or sits during trial compare bar, bench, jury box, sidebar, stand ...
New trial
New trial. If any defect of judgment happen from causes wholly extrinsic, i.e., arising from matters foreign to or dethors the record, the only remedy the party injured by it has (except formerly error coram nobis or vobis in some few cases) is by applying to the Court for a new trial, which is in substitution for a bill of exceptions. But the Court must be satisfied that there are strong probable grounds to suppose that the merits have not been fairly and fully discussed, and that the decision is not agreeable to the justice and truth of the case before they will grant a new trial.The following is a summary of the cases in which a new trial may be granted. They are all subject to the rule that in an action of contract, unless some right independent of the damages be in question, the amount in dispute must be 20l. at least for the Court to interfere.(1) Mistakes, etc., of a judge. If a judge misdirect a jury, even in a penal action, it is generally a good ground for a new trial. So if ...
Calling the jury
Calling the jury, successively drawing out of a box, into which they have been previously put, the names of the jurors on the panels annexed to the nisi prius record, and calling them over in the order in which they are so drawn. The twelve persons whose names are first called, and who appear, are sworn or the jury, unless some just cause of challenge or excuse, with respect to any of them, shall be brought forward....
Pyx
Pyx [fr. puxiV Gk., a box], the box in which sample coins are kept. For the purpose of ascertaining that coins issued from the Mint have been coined in accordance with law, a 'trial of the pyx' is held once at least in every year in which coins have been issued; see the (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10), s. 12. The trial takes place before a jury of members of the Gold-smiths' Company....
Allowance
Allowance [fr. locare, Lat.; allocare, allogare, It.; alogar, Prov.; louer, allouer, Fr., to place or assign], a deduction, an average payment, a portion.Also in selling goods, or in paying duties upon them, certain deductions are made from their weights, depending on the nature of the packages in which they are inclosed, and which are regulated in most instances by the custom of merchants, and the rules laid down by public offices. These allowances, as they are termed are distinguished by the epithets draft, tare, tret, and cloff.Draft is a deduction from the original or gross weight of goods, and is substracted before the tare is taken off.Tare is an allowance for the weight of the bag, box, cask, or other package in which goods are weighed.Real, or open tare, is the actual weight of the package.Customary tare is, as its name implies, an established allowance for the weight of the package.Computed tare is an estimated allowance agreed upon at the time.Average tare is when a few packa...
Criminal Evidence Act
Criminal Evidence Act, 1898 (English) (61 & 62 Vict. c. 36), the general Act by which every person charged with an offence and his or her wife or husband became a competent, but not a compellable, witness for the defence at every stage of the proceedings.The Evidence Acts, 1851 and 1853, whichmade parties and spouses admissible witnesses (they having been previously incompetent on the groundof interest), expressly excepted criminal proceedings from its opertion; but a series of enactments dealing with particular offences, from the Licensing Act, 1872, downto the Chaff Cutting Machines Accidents Act, 1897 (of which s. 20 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, was by far the most important), did away with this exception, in particular cases and in varying phraseology, but without qualifications except that against compellability, and enabled accused persons to give evidenceon oath in their own defence.The Act of 1898, superseding [see Charnock v. Merchant, (1900) 1 QB 474] but not expr...
- << Prev.
- Next >>