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jury wheel : a revolving container into which the names of prospective jurors from a jury list are placed and then drawn by chance ...
jury commission
jury commission : a body of appointed public officers who maintain a jury list and select the names of prospective jurors usually at random by use of a jury wheel NOTE: Jury commissions may be used in some federal district courts and state courts instead of or in addition to computerized jury selection. Jury commissions are usually organized on the county level and are used in almost 20 states. ...
jury 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 ...
Wheels
Wheels, sub-clause (xiv) specifies 'wheels, tyres, axles and wheel sets.' The rim of a cycle, manufactured by the appellant is admittedly a part of a wheel. Without a rim the other parts cannot be regarded as a wheel. Moreover the entry has to be read as a whole and the meaning also assigned to the words 'wheel sets' in the said entry and a rim which is admittedly a part of a wheel set would fall in the said entry, Dewan Enterprises v. C.S.T., (1996) 8 SCC 351 (352). [Uttar Pradesh Sales Tax Act, 1948 (15 of 1948), s. 3A and item 10]...
Abrasive wheel
Abrasive wheel, means any of the following which is, or is intended to be, power driven and which is for use in any grinding or cutting operation (i) a wheel, cylinder, disc or cone which, whether or not any other material is comprised in it, consists of abrasive particles held together by mineral, metallic or organic bonds whether natural or artificial, (ii) a mounted wheel or point and a wheel or disc with separate segments of abrasive materials; (iii) a wheel or disc made of metal, wood, cloth, felt, rubber or paper with any surface consisting wholly or partly of abrasive material and (iv) a wheel, disc or saw to any surface of which is attached rim or segments consisting diamond abrasive particles, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., para 721, Note 2, p. 563....
Jury
Jury [fr. jurata, Lat.; jure, Fr.], a number of persons sworn to deliver a verdict upon evidence delivered to them touching the issue.Trial by jury may be traced to the earliest Anglo-Saxon times. One of the judicial customs of the Saxons was that a man might be cleared of an accusation of certain crimes, if an appointed number of persons (juratores, or more properly compurgatores) came forward and swore to a veredictum, that they believed him innocent. It is remarkable that for accusations of any consequence among the Saxons on the continent, twelve juratores was the number required for an acquittal. Similar customs may be observed in the laws of Athens and Rome, where dikaotai and judices answer to jurors, an of the continental Angli and Frisiones, though the number of jurors varied.See, as to the introduction and growth of trial by jury in England, Forsyth's History of Trial by Jury; and for comments on and proposed amendments of the law, see Erle's Jury Laws and their Amendment, pu...
jury
jury pl: ju·ries [Anglo-French juree, from feminine past participle of Old French jurer to swear, from Latin jurare, from jur- jus law] : a body of individuals sworn to give a decision on some matter submitted to them ;esp : a body of individuals selected and sworn to inquire into a question of fact and to give their verdict according to the evidence occasionally used with a pl. verb [the are always to decide whether the inference shall be drawn "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr."] see also advisory jury, array, grand jury, inquest, jury nullification, petit jury, special jury, trial jury, venire Amendment VI to the Constitution in the back matter NOTE: The jury of American and English law most likely originated in early Anglo-Norman property proceedings, where a body of 12 knights or freemen who were from the area, and usually familiar with the parties, would take an oath and answer questions put to them by a judge in order to determine property rights. Jury verdicts began to be us...
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...
Crown wheel
A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane called also a contrate wheel or face wheel...
Ferris wheel
An amusement device consisting of a giant power driven vertically oriented steel wheel revolvable on its horizontal stationary axle and carrying a number of balanced passenger cars or open seats around its rim the seats are suspended so as to remain horizontal as the wheel rotates and depending on the size of the wheel the passengers when they reach the top may have a grand vista of the surrounding area so called after G W G Ferris American engineer who erected the first of its kind for the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893...
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