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summon : to command by service of a summons to appear in court ...
Summoners
Summoners, petty officers, who cite and warn persons to appear in any court, Fleta, 1. 9....
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 : to summon into court 2 : to verify (a business transaction) by examining documentary evidence vi 1 : to become surety 2 a : to supply supporting evidence or testimony b : to give personal assurance ...
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 attendance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 862.Jury process, the writ for the summoning of a jury. They were the distringas juratores, or habeas corpora juratorum, and the venire juratores facias, now abolished. A jury is summoned by precept. See 23 & 24 Vict. c. 77...
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 any partiality in the officer concerned in the summoning and return of the jury, as, for instance, if such officer is biased or has acted improperly) or 'for favour', where the position of the Summoning Officer is not necessarily inconsistent with indifference, but may be suspected, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 11(2), para 985, p. 829....
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...
tales
tales often attrib [from the Medieval Latin 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 the county to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned [a juror] ...
Original Writ or Original
Original Writ or Original [breve originale, Lat.], was the beginning or foundation of a real action at Common Law. It is also applied to processes for some other purposes.It was a mandatory letter issuing out of the Common Law or ordinary jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery (see now CHANCERY), under the Great Seal, and in the sovereign's name, addressed to the sheriff of the county where the injury was committed, containing a summary statement of the cause of complaint, 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 the sheriff to enforce the appearance. Original writs differed from each other in their tenor, according to the nature of the plaintiff's complaint, and were conceived in fixed and certain forms. Many of these are of a remote antiquity; others are of later origin, and their history is as follows:-The ancient writs had p...
Court-leet
Court-leet. [Coke says leet is a Saxon word, and comes from the verb gelathian, or gelethian (g being added euphoni' gratia), i.e., convenire, to assemble together, unde conventus, 4 Inst. 261. For other opinions as to the derivation of the word, see Lex Man. 131; Ritson on Courts-leet; and Scriv. On Copyholds.] This court is expressly kept up by s. 40 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, though for all but formal purposes it has long since fallen into desuetude, and there is still an annual Court-leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy which meets at St. Clement Danes Vestry Hall, the High Steward of the Manor presiding, a jury being empannelled one month aftr Easter and serving for a year from that date, the court being held 'for the purpose of preventing small offences in the nature of a common nuisance,' and still having 'power to impose fines for certain offenes, such the stopping up of ways': Solicitor's Journal,Vol. 49, p. 493.The Court-leet is a court of record appointed to be held once a...
Great Seal
Great Seal [clavis regni,Lat.], the emblem of sovereignty, introduced by Edward the Confessor. It is held by the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper for the time being and may not be taken out of the country. By Art. 24 of the Union between England and Scotland (5 Anne, c. 8) it was provided that there should be one Great Seal for the United Kingdom, to be used for sealing writs to summon the Parliament, and for sealing treaties with foreign states and all public acts of state which concern the United Kingdom, and in all other matters relating to England, as the Great Seal of England was then used; and that a seal in Scotland should be kept and made use of in all things relating to private rights or grants, which had usually passed the Great Seal of Scotland, and which only concern offices, grants, commissions, and private right within Scotland. On the Union between Great Britain and Ireland no express provision was made by any of the Articles of the Union as to the establishing one Great S...
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