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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...

Kabani

Kabani, a person who, in Oriental states, supplies the place of our notary public. All obligations, to be valid, are drawn by him; and he is also the public weigh-master; and everything of consequence ought to be weighed before him....

Tabularius

Tabularius, a notary, Civ. Law....

Ne varietur

Ne varietur, means 'it must not be altered'. A notation of identity that a person usually a notary, place on documents or translations of documents, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1063...

Note a Bill, To

Note a Bill, To. When a foreign bill has been dishonoured, it is usual for a notary public to present it again on the same day, and if it be not then paid, to make a minute, consisting of his initials, the day, month, and year, and reason, if assigned, of non-payment. The making of this minute is called 'noting the bill.' See NOTING, and Smith's Merc. Law; Byles on Bills....

Oath

Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal oath, where a witness, when he swears, places his right hand on the Holy Evangelists.The Christian religion, though it prohibits swearing, excepts oaths required by legal authority (Art. Ch. of Engl. xxxix.). All who believe in a God, the avenger of falsehood, have always been admitted to give evidence, but the old rule was, that all witnesses must take an oath of some kind. Very gradually, however, the legislature has relaxed this rule, and the privilege of affirming (see AFFIRMATION) instead of taking an oath has now been universally granted by the (English) Oaths Act, 1888, by which--Every person upon objection to being sworn, and stating, as the ground of such objection, either that he has no religious belief, or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief, shall be permitted to make his solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath in all places and for all purpose...

Ordinary

Ordinary, a judge who has authority to take cog-nizance of causes in his own right, and not by deputation or delegation, Civ. Law. See NOTARY.By the Common Law, one who has exempt and immediate jurisdiction in causes ecclesiastical.Also, a bishop: and an archbishop is the ordinary of the whole province, to visit and receive appeals from inferior jurisdictions. Also, a commissary or official of a bishop or other ecclesiastical judge having judicial power; an archdeacon; officer of the royal household....

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