circumstantibus

circumstantibus
Bystanders, present in the courtroom. circumvention. Trickery; outwitting; fraud or deceit.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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  • circumstantibus, tales de — See tales …   Black's law dictionary

  • circumstantibus, tales de — See tales …   Black's law dictionary

  • Tales de circumstantibus — Tales Ta les, n. [L., pl. of talis such (persons).] (Law) (a) pl. Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • de circumstantibus — From the bystanders. Whenever the general panel was exhausted and additional jurors were required to complete a trial jury, they were formerly summoned (de circumstantibus) from the bystanders by the sheriff. 31 Am J Rev ed Jury § 91 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • tales de circumstantibus — /teyliyz diy sarkamstintabas/ So many of the by standers. The emphatic words of the old writ awarded to the sheriff to make up a deficiency of jurors out of the persons present in court. 3 Bl.Comm. 365. The order of the judge for taking such by… …   Black's law dictionary

  • tales de circumstantibus — Jurors from the bystanders, that is, jurors empaneled from bystanders in the court room to form a jury, where a sufficient number of qualified jurors are not available for the trial of a case. 31 Am J Rev ed Jury § 3. For so many of the… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • ASDRUBAL — I. ASDRUBAL Gisgonis fil. a Romanis Hispaniâ pulsus, in Africam rediit, Syphace, cui filiam Sophonisben dederat, in partes suas pertractô. Dein Scipionem Uticae obsidione depulit, sed ab illo, una cum genero paulo post victus, in praelio cecidit …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • Tales — Ta les, n. [L., pl. of talis such (persons).] (Law) (a) pl. Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. Blount …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Tales book — Tales Ta les, n. [L., pl. of talis such (persons).] (Law) (a) pl. Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • talesman — noun Etymology: Middle English tales talesmen, from Medieval Latin tales de circumstantibus such (persons) of the bystanders; from the wording of the writ summoning them Date: 1679 1. a person added to a jury usually from among bystanders to make …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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