Petit+jury

  • 101foreman — fore·man n pl fore·men: a male or female member of a jury who acts as the leader and speaks for the jury Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. foreman …

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  • 102Assize of Clarendon — The Assize of Clarendon was an 1166 act of Henry II of England that began the transformation of English law from such systems for deciding the prevailing party in a case as trial by ordeal or trial by battle to an evidentiary model, in which… …

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  • 103Medical peer review — For the review of scholarly papers in refereed journals, see Peer review. For a more in depth assessment of Physician, External and Nursing peer review, and the history of peer review, see Clinical peer review. Medical peer review is the process… …

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  • 104Sham peer review — or malicious peer review is a name given to the abuse of a medical peer review process to attack a doctor for personal or other non medical reasons.[1] The American Medical Association conducted an investigation of medical peer review in 2007 and …

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  • 105traverse — In common law pleading, a traverse signifies a denial. Thus, where a defendant denies any material allegation of fact in the plaintiffs declaration, he is said to traverse it, and the plea itself is thence frequently termed a traverse. See also… …

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  • 106Militia — For other uses, see Militia (disambiguation). The Lexington Minuteman, a statue commemorating Captain John Parker, a commander of American militia forces during the American Revolutionary War. The term militia ( …

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  • 107Williams v. Mississippi — Infobox SCOTUS case Litigants = Williams v. Mississippi ArgueDate = ArgueYear = DecideDate = April 25 DecideYear = 1898 FullName = Henry Williams v. State of Mississippi USVol = 170 USPage = 213 Citation = Prior = Subsequent = Holding = There is… …

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  • 1081987 in organized crime — See also: 1986 in organized crime, other events of 1987, 1988 in organized crime and the list of years in Organized Crime . Events *January Commission Case The Bosses of the 5 New York Families The Commission are sentenced. All 8 defendants… …

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  • 109Witch trials in the Early Modern period — Punishments for witchcraft in 16th century Germany. Woodcut from Tengler s Laienspiegel, Mainz, 1508. The Witch trials in the Early Modern period were a period of witch hunts between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries,[1] when across Early… …

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  • 110talesmen — Jurors. sometimes called tales jurors, returned, often from bystanders, to complete a jury panel when because of challenge or other cause, there is not a petit jury to determine a civil or criminal case. 31 Am J Rev ed Jury § 3. In occasional… …

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