Principal Challenge

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Meaning of Principal challenge

A principal challenge was grounded on such manifest presumption of partiality that if the fact alleged was proved to be true, the disqualification of the juror followed as a legal conclusion, incapable of being rebutted. 144 111. 164. See Challenge.

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Principal challenge in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

1. “Proper defectum” – for disability: as, negligence, alienage, infancy, unsound mind, insufficient property. 2. “Propter affectum” – for bias or partiality: as, opinion formed; of kin to a party, or of the same fraternity or corporation; his attorney, servant, or tenant, or entertained by him; promised money for verdict; sued by exceptant in an action involving legal malice; being formerly a juror or an arbitrator in the matter; influenced by scruples against the punishment. 3. “Propter delictum” – for an offense committed: as, convicted of treason, forgery, perjury, or other crimen falsi. See 3 Bl. Com. 361-65; 4 id. 352; 29 Kan. 690; 17 S. & R. 162.

Note: This legal definition of Principal challenge in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.


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