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Definition of Petit jury

1. Noun. A jury of 12 to determine the facts and decide the issue in civil or criminal proceedings.

Definition of Petit jury

1. Noun. (legal) A regular trial jury, assembled to determine criminal or civil liability. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Petit Jury

Literary usage of Petit jury

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report by Public Archives of Canada (1893)
"Justice Thorpe. lose of the. ur warmest acknowledgments for your explanation to us of We the petit jury of the District of Niagara, beg leave to make to you ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"... upon the ground that the said grand jury and petit Jury were drawn by the Jury commissioners of Marlboro county from a Jury box prepared by the said ..."

3. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1791)
"Br. Attaint, p!. 12. cites 35 H: 6. 30. • SP Br. 4. In attaint me of the petit jury pleaded * accord made be- iii-'dtcf'' ..."

4. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"That if there shall not be a sufficient number of competent petit, jurors and alternates present, and not excused, to form a petit jury, the court may ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"Whenever a grand or petit jury is to be drawn to serve at any term of a District Court the judge of such district shall give public notice of the time and ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1901)
"Whenever a grand or petit jury is to b drawn to serve at any term of a District Gout the judge of such district shall give public oc tice of the time and ..."

7. Handbook of Criminal Procedure by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1918)
"THE petit jury—RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL, AND WAIVER 158. In all criminal prosecutions the defendant is entitled to a trial by jury. ..."

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