Jury
['dʒʊərɪ] or ['dʒʊri]
Definition
(noun.) a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law.
(noun.) a committee appointed to judge a competition.
Typist: Rowland--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) For temporary use; -- applied to a temporary contrivance.
(a.) A body of men, usually twelve, 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. See Grand jury under Grand, and Inquest.
(a.) A committee for determining relative merit or awarding prizes at an exhibition or competition; as, the art jury gave him the first prize.
Edited by Edith
Definition
n. a body of not less than twelve men selected and sworn as prescribed by law to declare the truth on evidence before them: a committee for deciding prizes at a public exhibition.—ns. Ju′ror one who serves on a jury—also Ju′ryman; Ju′ry-box the place in which the jury sit during a trial.—Jury of matrons a jury of 'discreet' women impanelled to try a question of pregnancy as where a widow alleges herself to be with child by her late husband or a woman sentenced to death to stay execution pleads that she is with child.
Typist: Nigel
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are on the jury, denotes dissatisfaction with your employments, and you will seek to materially change your position. If you are cleared from a charge by the jury, your business will be successful and affairs will move your way, but if you should be condemned, enemies will overpower you and harass you beyond endurance.
Typed by Chloe
Unserious Contents or Definition
Twelve men chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Edited by Laurence
Examples
- It'll come on, in the settens after Term: fourteenth of Febooary, we expect; we've marked it a special jury cause, and it's only ten down the paper. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They must tell their stories without any previous consultation with you, if none has yet taken place (another look at the jury). Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Have the goodness to tell the jury what it was. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He read as much of his notes to the jury as he could decipher on so short a notice, and made running-comments on the evidence as he went along. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Little Swills is waiting for the coroner and jury on their return. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I mount to the cell, with a fellow-citizen who is one of the Jury, directed by a gaoler. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The coroner's jury found that he took the poison accidentally. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He is understood to be in want of witnesses for the inquest to-morrow who can tell the coroner and jury anything whatever respecting the deceased. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- An anxious quarter of a hour elapsed; the jury came back; the judge was fetched in. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In the Report of the Jury the influence of the curved shape of the radial arms is considered very important in producing the effects. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The Jury of Awards, in presenting four medals to the Edison company, took occasion to pay a high compliment to the efficiency of the system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Bar, who felt that he had got all the rest of the jury and must now lay hold of the Foreman, soon came sidling up, double eye-glass in hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Call over and swear the jury! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Not to intrude on the sacred mysteries of medicine, he took it, now (with the jury droop and persuasive eye-glass), that this was Merdle's case? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the coroner's jury. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Juries,' said Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane tightly, as was his wont when working into a passion: 'juries is ineddicated, vulgar, grovelling wretches. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Since the Juries made their Reports, the development of cheap literature has been greatly extended. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- No blame attached to the officers--that lying and disaster-breeding verdict so common to our softhearted juries is seldom rendered in France. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The gentlemen of the juries might not understand him as Lignum and me do. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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