Category: J

This term is used to describe the ordinary and common jury that will try most civil and criminal cases.

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.

the method that a jury is summonsed and compelled to attend a court.

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 hence were said to administer liigli justice, (summam administrant justi- tiam.) Blount.

the term used to describe the choosing of jury members.

The law of war. The law of nations as applied to a state of war, defining in particular the rights and duties of the belligerent powers themselves, and of neutral nations. The right of war; that which may be done without injustice with regard to an enemy. Gro. de Jure B. lib. 1, c. 1,

the name used to describe a jury that is specially picked due to the importance of the matter before court.

The canon law

the jury that has been selected from a possible 48 people who are the best qualified to try a case.

a term used to describe a trial by jury that is different from a trial by a judge only.