Jnrata

I. I. A jury, — so called because sworn well and truly to try the issue, etc.; the jurata, or common jury of the ancient law, otherwise called jurata patriae, a jury of the country, as distinguished from the assisa, or assise established by Henry IL, from which it differed in being a tribunal chosen by consent of the parties themselves, or appointed by the court at their request, and in that the jurors were not liable to attaint In English law. The jury clause in a nisi prius record, so called from