Meanings
- not comparablerareOf or belonging to a jury.
Even these vagaries may not have penetrated the juratorial perception, had not Bertram skidded a little into blasphemy.
1929, Edward Huntington Williams, “Mental Quirks of Juries on Medical Subjects”, in The Doctor in Court, Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, page 1315 more examples
The parochial inquests, at which utilitarian tailors and anythingarian buttermen habitually fall foul of medical practitioners and chaplains, have hitherto afforded exclusive facilities for this—not often the most amiable—exercise of the juratorial faculty, even if it be an unquestionable privilege.
1847 November 20, The Railway Times, number 516; volume X, number 47, London: […] the Railway Times Office, page 1448Twelve days have now passed since an exceptionally stupid jury pronounced a verdict which surprised the prosecution, shocked the spectators, and even astonished the Recorder, whose long experience must have rendered him completely case-hardened against any but the most flagrant instances of juratorial perversity.
1865 October 4, The Pall Mall Gazette: An Evening Newspaper and Review, volume II, number 205, page 2[…]; the delay, expense, and doubt occasioned by judicial and juratorial ignorance of the usages of any particular business, through which every incident which mercantile men take for granted when dealing with each other, must be proved in detail, would seem to give some countenance to the notion that the merchants are right.
1865 December 22, The Standard, number 12,909, London, page 4From some illustrations which have come down to us this juratorial knowledge was allowed to prevail even against the testimony of solemn deeds whose genuineness was not disputed.
1875 September 3, “Old Courts and New Courts.—IV.”, in The Standard, number 15,945, London, page 2City of Mitchell v. Western Public Service Co., 124 Neb. 248, 246 N.W. 484 (1933) [appeal dismissed for want of a final judgment, 289 U.S. 709 (1933)], wherein the court said that, in the absence of a constitutional provision to the contrary, due process of law does not require a juratorial assessment of damages.
1939, The Journal of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, page 269
Origin
- Late Latinjūrātōrius
- Englishjuratorial
From Late Latin jūrātōrius + English -al.] + -al¹. .
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