Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In old English law, a jury.

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Examples

  • Out of the jurata, through Norman and English developments, would come the jury system of modern times.

    Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814 de Brantigny........................ 2009

  • In the ninth century, in Frank lands, this verdict of a jurata, or sworn group of inquirers, was used to decide many local issues of land ownership or criminal guilt.

    Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814 de Brantigny........................ 2009

  • In the ninth century, in Frank lands, this verdict of a jurata, or sworn group of inquirers, was used to decide many local issues of land ownership or criminal guilt.

    Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • In the ninth century, in Frank lands, this verdict of a jurata, or sworn group of inquirers, was used to decide many local issues of land ownership or criminal guilt.

    Archive 2008-01-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Out of the jurata, through Norman and English developments, would come the jury system of modern times.

    Archive 2008-01-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Out of the jurata, through Norman and English developments, would come the jury system of modern times.

    Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • It will be remembered that the earlier precedents are of a date when the assize and jurata had not given place to the modern jury.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • It has been suggested already that in the days of the assize and jurata the court decided whether the facts constituted a ground of liability in all ordinary cases.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • And even within that narrower limit, precedents of the time of the assize and jurata have been applied without a thought of their connection with a long forgotten procedure.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • See: alfo Olavs Verelius. rJemda idem efb duodecim ju - ratonun numerus feu jurata apud Anglos, quod nemda.

    Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis 1786

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