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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

L. Fr. Count, or reckon. In old practice, A direction formerly given by the clerk of a court to the crier, after a jury was sworn, to number them; and which Blackstone says was given in his time, in good English, "count these."

4 Bl. Comin. 340, note (u.)