heliastic

Most legal cases, however, came before one of the five popular (or heliastic) courts, which drew on a pool of about six thousand citizens who were selected by lot, assigned to a single court for one year, and paid to judge in panels that numbered (according to the sums involved or the seriousness of the alleged offense) two hundred, four hundred, five hundred, one thousand, or even six thousand.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

Most legal cases, however, came before one of the five popular (or heliastic) courts, which drew on a pool of about six thousand citizens who were selected by lot, assigned to a single court for one year, and paid to judge in panels that numbered (according to the sums involved or the seriousness of the alleged offense) two hundred, four hundred, five hundred, one thousand, or even six thousand.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

Since there were in ancient Athens 6,000 dicasts, who could be chosen by lot to sit as judges, the heliastic courts (which used the dicasts) in fact were a popular institution representing the sovereign people, who possessed the prerogative of the sovereign, and could therefore dis - pense justice without regard to technicalities.

EQUITY IN LAW AND ETHICS MILTON R. KONVITZ 1968

Such a challenge, if declined, was converted into a lawsuit, or came before a heliastic court for trial.”

Oeconomicus 2007

Such a challenge, if declined, was converted into a lawsuit, or came before a heliastic court for trial. "

The Economist 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874