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

Black's Law Dictionary

(Ten such; or ten teles, jurors.) In practice. The name of a writ which issues in England, where, on a trial at bar, ten jurors are necessary to make up a fnil panel, commanding the sheriff to summon the requisite number.

3 Bl. Comin. 364; Reg. Jud. 30b; 3 Steph. Comm. 602.