Non-Jurors
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In English law. Persons who refuse to take the oaths, required by law, to support the government. See 1 Ball. (Pa.) 170.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In English Law. Persons who refuse to take the oaths, required by law, to support the government. See Moore v. Few, 1 Dali. (U. S.) 170, 1 L. Ed. 86. NON LIQUET (Lat. it is not clear). In Civil Law. Words by which the judges ( ju dices ), in a Roman trial, were accustomed to free themselves from the necessity of deciding a cause when the rights of the parties were doubtful. On the tablets which were given to the judges wherewith to indicate
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910