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Justices
of the peace are of a varied character. They are of fouprincipal kinds: (1) To commit offenders to trial before a judge and jury, upon being satisfied that there is a prima facie case against them. This
Embracery
Embracery, an attempt to influence a jury corruptly in favour of one party in a trial, by promises, persuasions, entreaties, money, entertainments, and the like. The punishment for this mis-demeanour in the person embracing
venue
used esp. at common law 2 : the place from which a jury is drawn and in which trial is held see also change of venue compare jurisdiction 3 : a statement showing that a case is
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inquest
seek] 1 : a judicial or official inquiry or examination often before a jury [a coroner's ] compare trial 2 : a body of people (as a jury) assembled to hold a judicial or official inquiry ;also
Opening the pleadings
Opening the pleadings, stating briefly at a trial before a jury the substance of the pleadings. This is done by the junior counsel for the plaintiff
Pyx
have been issued; see the (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10), s. 12. The trial takes place before a jury of members of the Gold-smiths' Company.
Panel
a schedule or page, containing the names of such jurors as the sheriff returns to pass upon a trial; and empannelling a jury is nothing but the entering them into the sheriff's roll or book, Jac. Law
Newspaper
Court thereon; and the summing-up of the judge, finding of the jury, and judgment of the Court. No prosecution under this Act may be commenced without the sanction of the Attorney-general. Libel.--Under the (English) Libel Act, 1843
Larrison rule
Larrison rule, means the doctrine that a defendant may be entitled to a new trial on the basis of newly discovered evidence of false testimony by a government witness if the jury might
submit
decision ;specif : to commit to a trier of fact or law for decision after the close of trial or argument [the trial court could properly both counts to the jury "Rorie Sherman"] b : to deliver
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