Triers
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
or TRIORS. Persons appointed by the court, to determine some incidental question; pai'ticularly, persons called to determine the truth of a cause assigned for challenge to a juror. Triors are the lords selected to try a peer, when indicted for felony, in the court of the lord high steward. Also, two indifferent persons, named by the court to try the reasonableness of an objection taken by a party to a juror, on the ground of some alwhole panel of jurors, on account of a like objection to the sheriff. Mozley ^ W. Triors of jurors are persons selected by the court to examine whether a challenge, made to the panel of jurors, or any of them, be just or not. A challenge to the panel is grounded on some probable cause of suspicion, — as an acquaintance, or the like, — the validity of which is determined by these triors. These, if the first juror be challenged, are two indifferent persons, named by the court. If they find one man indifferent, he shall be sworn; and he, with the two triors, shall try the next, and, when another is found indifferent and sworn, the two triors shall be superseded; and the two first sworn on the jury shall try the rest.
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