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Summoners
Summoners, petty officers, who cite and warn persons to appear in any court, Fleta, 1. 9.
Resummon
To summon again
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Outrider
A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff
vouch
vouch [Anglo-French voucher to call, summon, summon to court as guarantor of a title, ultimately from Latin vocare to call, summon] vt 1 :
Jury process
Jury process, means (1) the procedure by which jurors are summoned and their attendance is enforced. (2) The papers served on or mailed to potential jurors to compel their
Challenge to the array
Challenge to the array, is the taking of exception to the whole panel of persons returned by the summoning officer by reason of matter personal to himself, and is either a principal challenge (on the ground of
Jury
should be made for exemption to the registration officer under the (English) Juries Act, 1922. Special jurors are summoned to try the more important or difficult jury cases in the King's Bench Division. Grand jury, abolished (except
tales
phrase tales de circumstantibus such (persons) of the bystanders; from the use of the phrase in the writ summoning them] : persons added to a jury from among those available in or about the courthouse or in
Original Writ or Original
andrequiring him to command the defendant to satisfy the claim, and, on his failure to comply, then to summon him to appear in one of the superior Courts of Common Law. In some cases it simply required
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