Challenge

To accuse, to call to answer, to appeal in the old sense of the word; to dispute or call in question; to object or except to a person; to except to persons returned to be jurors, which last is more especially the present meaning. Challenge to the array: an objection to a whole panel of jurore. Challenge to the polls: an objection to one or more of the persons returned as jurors on the trial of a cause singularly and personally. These are divided into peremptory challenges, which are challenges allowed to the accused in a criminal case: challenges for cause, or principal challenges, which -are again divided into challenges propter honoris respectum. challenges propter defectum, challenges propter affectum, and challenges propter delictum,; and challenges for favor, a weaker kind of challenge propter affectum, as pi-obable opinion, acquaintance, or the like. v. Peremptory challenge; Principal challenge; Propter, etc.