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jury system

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Noun1.jury system - a legal system for determining the facts at issue in a law suit
legal system - a system for interpreting and enforcing the laws
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"


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The two major themes are the emergence and incessant transformation of the jury system, including judge/jury relations, across eight centuries of civil and criminal justice and the law-equity division from the emergence of the Court of Chancery in the 14th century down through the Judicature Acts of the 1870s and equity's "conquest" of common law in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure of 1938.
The Los Angeles District Attorney's office was said to be drawing plans to use the grand jury system to interrogate every doctor involved with the King of Pop since 1989.
She has also appeared in a promotional video for Japan s Supreme Court to raise public awareness of a new jury system.
 
 
 
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