Legal Definition and Related Resources of Body of a county
Meaning of Body of a county
A county at large, as distinguished from any particular place within it. See 25 Wis. 364. Under the common law, in both civil “and criminal cases, the jury were to be taken from the visne or neighborhood, from among the neighbors and equals of the litigants or the accused, and by long usage this came to mean -from the body of the county. 232 111. 114.
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Body of a county in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
1. The territorial limits of a county. 2. The people of a county collectively considered. See Venue.
Note: This legal definition of Body of a county in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
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