Juries
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juries · jury · jurors · local juries · twelve men
in the texts
Against Boeotus I
Judicial panels whose pay and availability affected whether a summons would become a court case.
and if pay had been available for the juries, I should certainly have had to bring the case into court.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Bodies of jurors envisioned as refusing to enforce taxation to which the taxed individual never consented.
for it is not to be supposed that juries would enforce a tax upon an individual which he had never agreed to pay.
Unless the government then kept itself within the terms of its contract, juries would not enforce the payment of the tax.
The Law of Intellectual Property
Panels of twelve common men who served as sole judges of law and fact in early English Common Law courts.
But this king’s court could enforce no decisions of its own, adversely to those given by the juries.
They consisted of twelve men, taken from the common people, almost or entirely at random.
But none of them could be enforced against the people, without the consent of the juries;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Bodies of local men who gave sworn testimony, used both in the 1212 Inquest and in a 1231 plea concerning the sheriff's frankpledge visits.
In another plea (1231) juries testify that since the making of “carta de Runemede” (here evidently used for the Charter of 1217) the sheriff has come into the hundred twice instead of once a year (as the old custom was) to take view of frankpledge and to make attachments of pleas of the Crown.
Commissioners were appointed to take the sworn verdicts of local juries as to the amount of liability due by each Crown vassal.
Memorabilia
Court bodies described as liable to be swayed by argument into unjust verdicts.
Then I said, Don’t you see, Socrates, that the juries in our courts are apt to be misled by argument, so that they often put the innocent to death, and acquit the guilty?
Ah, yes, Hermogenes, he answered, but when I did try to think out my defence to the jury, the deity at once resisted.