Pack

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

To deceive by false appearances; to counterfeit; to delude; as, packing a jury. See "Jury;" Bac. Abr. "Juries" (M); 12 Conn. 262.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

To deceive by false appearances. See, also, Packing.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

To deceive by false appearances; to counterfeit; to delude.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

To put together in sorts with a fraudulent design. To pack a jury is to use unlawful, improper or deceitful means to have the Jury made up of persons favorably disposed to the party se contriving or who have bcen or can be improperly influenced to give the verdict he seeks. The term imports the improper and corrupt selection of a jury sworn and impaneled for the trial of a causa Mix v. Woodward, 12 Conn. 289.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

To "pack a jury" is to improperly and corruptly select a jury sworn and impaneled to try a cause, i

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

To pack a jury is a current expression, meaning to employ constated in the plaintiff's declaration. But now, to demand oyer of an obligation, is not only to desire the plaintiff's attorney to read the same, but to have a copy thereof, that the defendant may consider what to plead to the action. Jacob. Oyer and terminer. This phrase is sometimes understood to mean to hear and terminate. A truer rendering is, hear and determine. Terminer, in the phrase, is doubtless an elision or corruption of determiner. At all events, the phrase is now understood to mean a class of courts of original criminal jurisdiction of the higher sort. In English practice, a commission of oyer and terminer is a commission under the king's great seal, directed to certain persons, among whom two common-law judges are usually appointed, empowering them to hear and' determine treasons, felonies, robberies, murders, and criminal offences in general. And courts of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery were (at least prior to the judicature a<!t) tribunals held before the queen's commissioners, among whom are usually two judges of the superior courts of law at Westminster, twice in every year in every county of the kingdom, the metropolis and its vicinity excepted. In New York, the phrase is used as the title of a court of leading original jurisdiction in criminal causes. Oyez. Hear ye. The introductory word of proclamations by a public crier, as on opening court, originally used in the French forms, and retained as the commencement of the English forms of proclamations, but pronounced as if an English word. In American courts, the words hear ye are generally used. O, YES. It is said to be a corruption of the French oi/ez, i.e. hear ye; and is sometimes used in courts by the public crier, to command attention, when a proclamation is going to be made. Brown. disposed to find a desired verdict. Tha jury is packed when it is fi Ued with adof