Jury
For temporary use; -- applied to a temporary contrivance.
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 committee for determining relative merit or awarding prizes at an exhibition or competition; as, the art jury gave him the first prize.
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Jury Quotations
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho Marx
A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. Mencken
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.
Dave Barry
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
Thurgood Marshall
Jury Translations
jury in Dutch is jury
jury in French is jury
jury in German is Preisrichter
jury in Italian is giuria
jury in Norwegian is jury
jury in Spanish is jurado
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