"Empanel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unlimited power. Every year some gentleman, an inhabitant of the place, is appointed sheriff; his office is to collect the public moneys, to raise fines, or to make seizures, and account for it to the Treasury; to attend upon the judges, and put their sentence in execution; to empanel the jury, who sit upon facts, and return their verdict to the judges (who in England are only such of the law, and not of the fact); to convey the condemned to execution, and to dertermine in lesser causes, for the greater are tried by the judges, formerly ...
— Travels in England and Fragmenta Regalia • Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton
... prefer a claim, file a claim &c n.; take the law of, inform against. serve with a writ, cite, apprehend, arraign, sue, prosecute, bring an action against, indict, impeach, attach, distrain, commit; arrest; summon, summons; give in charge &c (restrain) 751. empanel a jury, implead^, join issue; close the pleadings; set down for hearing. try, hear a cause; sit in judgment; adjudicate &c 480. Adj. litigious &c (quarrelsome) 713; qui tam; coram judice [Lat.], sub judice [Lat.]. Adv. pendente lite [Lat.]. Phr. adhuc sub judice lis ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
