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Special jury

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

Black's Law Dictionary

A jury ordered by the court, on the motion of either party, in cases of unusual importance or intricacy. Called, from the manner in which it is constituted, a "struck jury."

3 Bl. Comm. 357.

A jury composed of persons above the rank of ordinary freeholders; usually summoned to try questions of greater importance than those usually submitted to common juries.

Brown.