Definition of Jury system

1. Noun. A legal system for determining the facts at issue in a law suit.

Generic synonyms: Legal System
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jury System

jury-rig
jury-rigged
jury-rigging
jury-rigs
jury box
jury boxes
jury duty
jury is out
jury mast
jury nullification
jury panel
jury pool
jury pools
jury rig
jury rigs
jury system (current term)
jury trial
jury trials
jurying
juryless
juryman
jurymast
jurymasts
jurymen
juryo-kaku
jurywoman
jurywomen
jus
jus'

Literary usage of Jury system

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The jury system was much contested ; in those terribly troubled times it could not ... After many discussions and struggles the jury system, which was to ..."

2. History of Trial by Jury by William Forsyth (1875)
"Rise and Growth of the jury system for the Trial of Accusations. I do not think it is possible to determine the exact period when the change took place, ..."

3. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Betwecn the jury system and the proposed quasi-jury system, ... Compared with the jury system, this character is not peculiar to the quasi-jury system: ..."

4. Trial by Jury: A Brief Review of Its Origin, Development and Merits and by Robert Von Moschzisker (1922)
"(§ 77) Defense of jury system: Casual and fixed tribunals, Explained; (§ 78) Historic ... (§ 87) jury system essential part of our political institutions; ..."

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