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Meaning of Tales
Latin. Such men. At common law , when at the trial of an action or criminal proceeding , a sufficient number of jurors do not appear , either by reason of challenge or other causes, either party may pray a tales, that is, ask the court to make up the deficiency .
Tales Alternative Definition
(Lat. talis, such, like). In practice. A number of jurors added to a deficient panel suflBcient to supply the deficiency. A list of such jurymen as were of the tales, kept in the king’s bench ofiice in England.
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Concept of “Tales”
Traditional meaning of tales in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Such; so many. Tales die circumstantibus: so many jurors as may be necessary to make up the panel, selected from the by- standers, talesmen; see 3rd Book (“Of Private Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 364; DECEM TALES; OTO TALES.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Tales”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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