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    Juries

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    juries · jury · jurors · local juries · twelve men

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    Against Boeotus IClassical · Greek

    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.
    against boeotus i

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury19th Century · English

    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.
    appendix taxation
    Unless the government then kept itself within the terms of its contract, juries would not enforce the payment of the tax.
    appendix taxation

    The Law of Intellectual Property19th Century · English

    Panels of twelve common men who served as sole judges of law and fact in early English Common Law courts.

    Juries fixed the sentence in all criminal cases;
    chapter 28
    They consisted of twelve men, taken from the common people, almost or entirely at random.
    chapter 28
    But none of them could be enforced against the people, without the consent of the juries;
    chapter 28

    Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

    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.

    Commissioners were appointed to take the sworn verdicts of local juries as to the amount of liability due by each Crown vassal.
    ii the crown and feudal obligations
    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.
    chapter 113

    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    Court bodies described as liable to be swayed by argument into unjust verdicts.

    Ah, yes, Hermogenes, he answered, but when I did try to think out my defence to the jury, the deity at once resisted.
    chapter 4
    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?
    chapter 4