array


array
ar·ray 1 /ə-'rā/ vt: to set (a jury) for trial; specif: to set (a jury) by calling out the names of the jurors one at a time compare impanel
array 2 n: the group of people summoned to serve as jurors from which the jury will be chosen; also: a list of the jurors' names see also challenge to the array at challenge compare venire

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

array
I (jury) noun body of jurors, good men and true, jurors, jurymen, panel, trier, trier of the facts associated concepts: challenge to the array, jury panel, venire II (order) noun arrangement, assemblage, classification, collocation, composition, comprehensiveness, course, design, display, disposition, disposure, distribution, due order, fixed order, formation, gamut, good order, gradation, layout, logical order, marshaling, method, methodicalness, methodology, multiplicity, multitude, ordering, organization, parade, pattern, perspective, placing, progression, range of choices, range of view, regularity, rule, schematic arrangement, scope, sequence, series, show, sight, state of order, strict order, subordination, system, systematization, unbroken order, uniformity III verb accouter, arrange, attire, deploy, display, dispose, draw up, enhance, enrich, file, fix, group, marshal, orchestrate, order, rank, sequence, set in order, sort IV index assemblage, band, chain (series), clothe, composition (makeup), conglomeration, disposition (final arrangement), distribute, embellish, file (arrange), fix (arrange), form (arrangement), formation, jury, marshal, order (arrangement), selection (collection), sequence, sort

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


array
1 n. A group of people called into court at the same time for potential jury duty. From such a group the members of a jury or juries will be selected.
2 n. The members of such a group who are empaneled to be a jury.
3 v. To empanel a jury for a trial.
4 n. The list of empaneled jurors.
5 v. To call out the names of the jurors as each is empaneled.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.


array
The entire group of jurors selected for a trial from which a smaller group is subsequently chosen to form a petit jury or a grand jury; the list of potential jurors.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


array
The entire group of jurors selected for a trial from which a smaller group is subsequently chosen to form a petit jury or a grand jury; the list of potential jurors.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

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