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Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

A plea by a prisoner in bar of execution, that he is not the same person who was convicted or attainted; upon which a jury was formally impanelled to try his identity.