Tale
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In English Law. The ancient TALES (Lat. tails, such, like). A number of jurors added to a deficient panel sufficient to supply the deficiency.
Nesbit v. People, 19 Colo. 441, 36 Pac. 221. See Shields v. Bank, 3 Hun (N. Y.) 477, 479.
A list of such jurymen as were of the tales, kept in the king’s bench office in England. TALES DE CIRCUM ST ANTIBUS (Lat. a like number of the bystanders). A sufficient number of jurors selected from the bystanders to supply a deficiency in the panel. The order of the judge for taking such bystanders as jurors. Whenever from any cause the panel of jurors is insufficient, the judge may issue the above order, and the officer immediately executes it; see Lee v. Evaul, 1 N. J. L. 283; Fuller v. State, 1 Blackf. (Ind.) 65.
See Jury.