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Elisors

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In practice

Two persons appointed by the court to return a jury, when the sheriff and the coroner have been challenged as incompetent. In this case, the elisors return the writ of venire directed to them, with a panel of the jurors, names, and their return is final, no challenge being allowed to their array.

3 Bl. Comm. 355: 1 Cow. (N. Y.) 32; 3 Cow. (N. Y.) 296.

ELOGIUM (Lat.) In clvU law. A will or testament.