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Definition of Nonjury
1. a case not involving a jury [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonjury
Literary usage of Nonjury
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Risk Management and Medical Liability: A Manual for Indian Health Service by Stephen W. Heath (1998)
"D. Jury versus nonjury trials 1. A right to trial by jury exists for most civil
and criminal claims under federal and state constitutions, but a jury trial ..."
2. Notes on Texas Reports: A Chronological Series of Annotations of the by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, Texas Supreme Court, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (1911)
"E. 120, 27 LEA 676, upholding statute providing for nonjury trial before justices
where appeal is allowed; ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee by Tennessee Supreme Court, Joseph Brown Heiskell, Jere Baxter, Benjamin James Lea, George Wesley Pickle, Charles Theodore Cates, Frank Marian Thompson, Charles Le Sueur Cornelius, Roy Hood Beeler, George F. McCanless, David M. Pack (1916)
"The prime purpose of the legislation was twofold: First, to expedite the business
of the courts by dividing trials into jury and nonjury trials, ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"... the district judge, who tried the case (it being a nonjury casei found as a
fact that the boat was on the Louisiana side of the middle of the river. ..."
5. Criminal Justice & Community Response to Rape by Joel Epstein (1995)
"The usual route for these assistant district attorneys is from general preliminary
hearings to misdemeanor trials to felony nonjury trials to a jury unit ..."
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