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Talesmen

Talesman \Tales"man\, n.; pl. Talesmen. (Law) A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded.
--Wharton.

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talesmen

n. (plural of talesman English)

Usage examples of "talesmen".

If the writer's recollection is not at fault, the large original panel drawn in the first Molineux trial was used up and several others had to be drawn until eight hundred talesmen had been interrogated before the jury was finally selected.

As to talesmen in other localities he has no knowledge or reliable information.

Practically the only question which these lawyers put to the different talesmen during the selection of the jury was, "Have you any prejudice against the defendant on account of his race?

As things stand to-day, a thief caught in the very act of picking a pocket in the night-time may challenge arbitrarily the twenty most intelligent talesmen called to sit as jurors in his case.