Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A group of people summoned to fill vacancies on a jury that has become deficient in number.
- n. The writ allowing for a summons of jurors.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In law, a list or supply of persons summoned upon the first panel, or happening to be present in court, from whom the sheriff or clerk makes selections to supply the place of jurors who have been impaneled but are not in attendance.
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of tale.
- n. law A person available to fill vacancies in a jury.
- n. law A book or register of people available to fill jury vacancies.
- n. law A writ to summon people to court to fill vacancies in a jury.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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 writ by which such persons are summoned.
Etymologies
- From Latin plural of talis ("such (persons)") (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Medieval Latin tālēs dē circumstantibus, such (persons) from those standing about (a phrase used in the writ), from Latin, pl. of tālis, suchs. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Sad and bitter tales lie hidden back of those white doors, tales of poverty, of struggle, of disappointment.”
“Stone-1 was his name tales of the outer stars, of planets cracking comets crashing into the sun fury in the dogs of space distant encounters in the cloud's cold heart”
“The Kurd, in tales, is generally a sturdy thief; and in real-life is little better.”
“A character in one of the tales is an apprentice in a senbei store.”
“This first of four tales is a terrific young adult Regency romantic suspense tales starring fully developed characters.”
La Petite Four-Regina Scott « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
“I'm currently in the midst of an old children's book, Max Voegeli's The Wonderful Lamp (1955) which is a great take on the tales from the Arabian Nights swirled together into an original story.”
“I've expanded on these thoughts on The Barking Dog ... and impelled more and to think that in The Kindly Ones, we are not reading anything close to 'realist historical fiction,' but something resembling a monstrous fable -- the darkest of tales from the brothers Grimm, not at all constructed as a representation of historical reality, but as an endlessly suggestive fictive parallel.”
“Unhelpful Labels: customers say the darndest things, tales from the cafe”
“Unhelpful Labels: customers say the darndest things, tales from the cafe reasons to keep on blogging: kelli said ...”
“Unhelpful Labels: art for arts sake, tales from the cafe”
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