Talesman
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A person summoned to act as a juror from among the bystanders in the court. TALIO (Lat. from talis, such, like). In the civil law. Like for like; punishment in the same kind; the punishment of an injury by an act of the same kind, as an eye for an eye, a limb for a limb, etc. Called sim Uitudo supplicii, likeness of punishment; reciproca poena, reciprocal punishment.
Calv. Lex.; Adams, Rom. Ant. 291.
TALIS INTERPRETATIO SEMPER Flenda est, ut evitetur absurdum, et incpnveniens, et ne judicium sit illusorlum. Interpretation is always to be made in such a manner that what is absurd and inconvenient is to be avoided, and so that the judgment be not nugatory.
1 Coke, 52.