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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In law, a list of persons who may be summoned to act as jurymen.

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Examples

  • Mr. Juddson, seated by his sister's elbow, pushed the jury-list towards her, with a slight nod of encouragement.

    Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

  • Such a Guild would furnish a useful constituency, a useful jury-list.

    Mankind in the Making 1906

  • Such a Guild would furnish a useful constituency, a useful jury-list.

    Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903

  • A jury-list was made out, and Mr.B. L., a prominent banker and a valued citizen, was questioned precisely as he would have been questioned in any court in America:

    Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

  • A jury-list was made out, and Mr.B. L., a prominent banker and a valued citizen, was questioned precisely as he would have been questioned in any court in America:

    Roughing It, Part 5. Mark Twain 1872

  • A jury-list was made out, and Mr.B. L., a prominent banker and a valued citizen, was questioned precisely as he would have been questioned in any court in America:

    Roughing It 1871

  • The federal constitution has introduced the jury into the tribunals of the Union in the same way as the states had introduced it into their own several courts: but as it has not established any fixed rules for the choice of jurors, the federal courts select them from the ordinary jury-list which each state makes for itself.

    American Institutions and Their Influence Alexis de Tocqueville 1832

  • If, therefore, there had been fifteen more Roman Catholics in the jury-list, it would have been an even chance that there would have been one Roman Catholic more among the forty-eight.

    Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • However, with this jury-list, with this jury, with this judge, you have a verdict.

    Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • Well, you had forty-eight names taken by lot from this mutilated jury-list: and then came the striking.

    Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

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