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Definition of Jury box
1. Noun. An enclosure within a courtroom for the jury.
Definition of Jury box
1. Noun. The area in a courtroom wherein the jury is seated during a trial. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jury Box
Literary usage of Jury box
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"... until this afternoon; those specially summoned in this case, are discharged
finally,' when the jurors arose from their seats in the jury box, and began ..."
2. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1898)
"... crime is entitled to have the names of all the jurors from whom the trial jury
is to be drawn placed within the jury box before the impaneling is begun. ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1879)
"... District Court that under the "civil-rights act" a colored man is not tried
by hie peers unless there are negroes in the jury-box. The decision grew out ..."
4. Juries and Jury Trials in Civil and Criminal Cases: Illinois by John Abraham MacNeil (1921)
"NUMBER IN jury box: Necessity of Full Panel Upon the impaneling of any jury in
any civil cause now pending or to be hereafter commenced in any court in this ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"... that the negro is his equal and forever to be his equal at the ballot-box, in
the jury-box, with the cartridge-box ; in the school, in the college, ..."
6. Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...by John Macdonell, Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Edward Power Wallis by John Macdonell, Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Edward Power Wallis (1896)
"Bnt if there was a systematic exclusion of Roman Catholics from the jury box,
and if, time after time, aud trial after trial, in a Roman Catholic country, ..."
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