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Calling The Jury

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The calling In court of the names on the jury list when a jury is to be selected and impanelled.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Calling off the names of veniremen for jury duty.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Successively drawing out of a box into which they have been previously put the names of the jurors on the panels annexed to the nisi prius rec. ord, and calling them over in the order in which they are so drawn. The twelve persons wliose names are first called, and who appear, are sworn as the jury, unless some just cause of challenge or excuse, with respect to any of them, shall be brought forward,