Tale
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English law
The ancient name of the declaration or count.
3 Bl. Comm. 293.
TALES (Lat. talis, such, like).
In practice
A number of jurors added to a deficient panel sufl Bcient to supply the deficiency. A list of such jurymen as were of the tales, kept in the king's bench ofiice in England. TALES DE CIRCUMSTANTIBUS (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 2 Hill (S. C.) 381; 2 Pa. St. 412; Coxe (N. J.) 283; 1 Blackf. (Ind.) 63; 2 Har. & J. (Md.) 426; 1 Pick. (Mass.) 43, note.
The number to be drawn on successive panels is in the discretion of the court.
17 Ga. 497.