family meeting

family meeting
An advisory jury, differing radically from an ordinary jury in that it is constituted with direct reference to its members having a bias, a partiality, an affection for those whose affairs it is called to deliberate. It is called to aid the court in determining affairs in which the members of the family are interested, such as the appointment of the curator of an interdict, a lunatic or an infant. Interdiction of Bothick, 44 La Ann 1037, 1041, 11 So 712. See also Lemoine v Ducote, 45 La Ann 857, 12 So 939.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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