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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

1.

The list, roll, or schedule embracing the names of persons summoned to attend as jurors; also, the body of persons in attendance under the summons is sometimes called the panel. The word panel includes the jurors returned upon a special venire, to fill out the deficiency after the regular panel has been exhausted.

People v. Coyodo, 40 Cal. 586. 2.

In Scotch law, one who appears to take his trial for a crime is called the panel, during the subsequent proceedings; thus the term is equivalent to " prisoner at the bar."