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instruct

[the jury was ed to ignore the attorney's comments] vi : to give instructions to a jury [the trial judge refused to on manslaughter "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."]

De medietate lingu'

jury a competent number of aliens, if so many there were in the town or place where the trial was had; and if not, then so many aliens as should be found in the same town or

party must file with the court a notice that the case is ready for trial and that a jury trial, if desired, is demanded. 2 : a list of bills or other items reported out of committee … to be heard on a procedural action [the motion ] ;specif : a list of cases ready for trial called also list compare docket NOTE: Generally it is up to the party that wants to go to

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Decem tales

Decem tales (ten such). If, when a trial at bar (see BAR, TRIAL AT) is called on, a sufficient number of jurors do not attend, the … a decem or octo tales, according to the number deficient, awarded, as at Common Law; for the County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo. 4, c. 50), s. 37, which allows the tales de circumstantibus, is expressly confined

Charge

(i) the instructions of a judge to a jury; the judge's summing up of the evidence at a trial by jury; the periodical address of a bishop or archdeacon to his clergy; the taking proceedings against a

array

array : to set (a jury) for trial ;specif : to set (a jury) by calling out the names of the jurors one at a time

Jury-fixing

Matched in: Term Jury-fixing

Circumstantibus, Tales de

Circumstantibus, Tales de (so many of the bystanders). In civil and criminal trials, where by reason of the default of the jury, or of challenge, there is not a sufficient number

Bench trial

Matched in: Term Bench trial

Nemo debet bis vexari, si constat curi' quod sit pro una et eadem causa

application of the maxim, see Rex. v. Simpson, (1914) 1 KB 66. See AUTREFOIS CONVICT. But an abortive trial without a verdict, as if a jury he discharged for inability to agree, may be followed by a

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