Crossword clues for juries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jury \Ju"ry\, n.; pl. Juries. [OF. jur['e]e an assize, fr. jurer to swear, L. jurare, jurari; akin to jus, juris, right, law. See Just,a., and cf. Jurat, Abjure.]
-
(Law) A body of people, selected according to law, impaneled and sworn to inquire into and try any matter of fact, and to render their true verdict according to the evidence legally adduced. In criminal trials the number of such persons is usually twelve, but in civil cases and in grand juries it may different. See Grand jury under Grand, and Inquest.
The jury, passing on the prisoner's life.
--Shak. -
A committee for determining relative merit or awarding prizes at an exhibition or competition; as, the art jury gave him the first prize.
Jury of inquest, a coroner's jury. See Inquest.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of jury English)
Usage examples of "juries".
The difficulty of obtaining Roman Catholic members of juries to convict in Ribband cases, even upon the clearest evidence, greatly impeded the course of justice in Ireland.
Farrell knew juries and he knew San Francisco, and you needed a lot more than they had on Levon Copes to convict anybody of murder here.
Judges addressing juries, or prospective jurors, could be friendly and avuncular or tight and businesslike.
This was not to suggest that what followed was acceptable or not criminal, but juries are always interested in the causal relationships of crime and the individuals involved.
Most juries like to see illogic as part of insanity, but what Hask believes appears to be internally consistent.
The proposal failed when it was pointed out that the make-up and powers of juries differed greatly in different States and that a uniform provision for all States was impossible.
Amendment VII is not restricted in its application to suits at common law tried before juries in United States courts.
State court juries except in cases where this guidance of Congress was applicable.
But it is from that welter of qualified individuals, who meet specified minimum standards, that juries are to be chosen.
Such a panel is narrower and different from that used in forming juries to try the vast majority of other accused persons.
He argued that regiments were not necessary to put down meetings: they could not stop speeches, prevent resolutions, or obtain juries to convict men for seditious practices.
By the verdict of the ordinary juries, the fate of the prisoners must be decided.
Irish arms bill, he reported that the law had its unimpeded course, that juries did their duty, and that crime was effectually restrained.
Yet the trial was so managed, and juries were found so obstinate, that notwithstanding the appearance of the most pertinacious prosecution on the part of the crown, a conviction could not be obtained.
The Roman Catholics in the juries were obstinate in refusing a conviction.