Tale
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In English law. The ancient name of the declaration or count. 3 Bl. Comm. 293. TALES (Lat. talis, such, like).
In practice. A number of jurors added to a deficient panel sufl Bcient to supply the deficiency. A list of such jurymen as were of the tales, kept in the king's bench ofiice in England. TALES DE CIRCUMSTANTIBUS (Lat. a like number of the bystanders). A sufficient number of jurors selected from the bystanders to supply a deficiency in the panel. The order of the judge for taking such bystanders as jurors. Whenever, from any cause, the panel of jurors is insufficient, the judge may issue the above order, and the officer immediately executes it. See 2 Hill (S. C.) 381; 2 Pa. St. 412; Coxe (N. J.) 283; 1 Blackf. (Ind.) 63; 2 Har. & J. (Md.) 426; 1 Pick. (Mass.) 43, note. The number to be drawn on successive panels is in the discretion of the court. 17 Ga. 497.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In English Law. The ancient TALES (Lat. tails, such, like). A number of jurors added to a deficient panel sufficient to supply the deficiency. Nesbit v. People, 19 Colo. 441, 36 Pac. 221. See Shields v. Bank, 3 Hun (N. Y.) 477, 479. A list of such jurymen as were of the tales, kept in the king’s bench office in England. TALES DE CIRCUM ST ANTIBUS (Lat. a like number of the bystanders). A sufficient number of jurors selected from the bystanders to supply a deficiency in the panel. The order of the judge for taking such bystanders as jurors. Whenever from any cause the panel of jurors is insufficient, the judge may issue the above order, and the officer immediately executes it; see Lee v. Evaul, 1 N. J. L. 283; Fuller v. State, 1 Blackf. (Ind.) 65. See Jury.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
The count or counting of money; in old pleading, a plaintiff's count, declaration, or narrative of his case.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
See Declaration, 2.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
A plaintiff's count.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
comm. law, a denomination of money in China. In the computation of the ad valorem duty on goods, &ec. it is computed at one dollar and forty-eight cents. Act of March 2, 1799, s. 61, 1 Story’s L. U. 8. 626. Vide Foreign Coins. TALES DE CIRCUMSTAN—