the term used to describe an ordinary jury as different from a grand jury or a coroner’s jury.
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JURY DIRECTION
The points of law associated with a case as a judge’s precise instructions to a jury. Evidence presented before the court is typically summarized.
JURY DUTY
the name given to the time a person serves on a jury.
JURY GRAND
the term that describes the jury of 12 to 24 men and women who will hear all of the court witnesses and evidence.
JURY HUNG
the term that is sued to describe the jury that cannot reach a verdict due to the insoluble differences of opinions of juror’s.
JURY LIST
he name given to the list of all of the possible jurors .
JURY OF EXECUTIVE OPINION
For a specific decision or forecast, the combining and averaging of views of several contributing executives. A face-to-face session to provide essential information immediately , quickly, without using elaborate data […]
JURY PETIT
This term is used to describe the ordinary and common jury that will try most civil and criminal cases.
JURY PROCESS
the method that a jury is summonsed and compelled to attend a court.
JURY SELECTION
the term used to describe the choosing of jury members.
JURY SPECIAL
the name used to describe a jury that is specially picked due to the importance of the matter before court.
JURY STRUCK
the jury that has been selected from a possible 48 people who are the best qualified to try a case.
JURY TRIAL
a term used to describe a trial by jury that is different from a trial by a judge only.
JURY WHEEL
the name of the apparatus or the receptacle where all the names of potential jurors are placed and from names are picked blindly.
JURYMAN
A juror: one who is impaneled on a jury.
JURYWOMAN
One member of a jury of matrons, (q. v.)
JUS
Lat In Roman law. Right; justice ; law; the whole body of law; also a right. The term is used in two meanings: 1. “Jus” means “law,” considered in the […]
JUS ABSTINENDI
The right of renunciation ; the right of an heir, under the Roman law, to renounce or decline the inheritance , as, for example, where his acceptance, in consequence of […]
JUS ABUTENDI
The right to abuse. By this phrase is understood the right to do exactly as one likes with property, or having full dominion over property. 3 Toul- lier, no. 80.
JUS ACCRESCENDI
The right of survivorship . The right of the survivor or survivors of two or more joint tenants to the tenancy or estate, upon the death of one or more […]
JUS AD REM
A term of the civil law, meaning “a right to a thing;” that is, a right exercisable by one person over a particular article of property in virtue of a […]
JUS ALBINATUS
The droit d’aubaine, (q. v.) See ALUINATUS JUS.
JUS ANGLORUM
The laws and customs of the West Saxons, in the time of the Heptarchy, by which the people were for a long time governed, and which were prefer- red before […]
JUS AQU3IDUCTUS
In the civil law . The name of a servitude which gives to the owner of land the right to bring down water through or from the land of another.
JUS BANCI
In old English law . The right of bench. The right or privilege of having an elevated and separate scat of judgment, anciently allowed only to the king’s judges, who […]