Definition of tales Tales

/tejˈlz/ - [teylz] - ta•les

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  • tales (Noun)
    Plural of tale.
  • tales (Noun)
    A person available to fill vacancies in a jury.
  • tales (Noun)
    A book or register of people available to fill jury vacancies.
  • tales (Noun)
    A writ to summon people to court to fill vacancies in a jury.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • tales (n.)
    Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter.
  • tales (syntactically sing.)
    The writ by which such persons are summoned.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • tales
    tā′lēz, n.pl. a list of persons, apparently a selection from spectators in court, made by the sheriff or judge at a trial, to supply any defect in a jury or panel.—n. Tā′lesman, a bystander so chosen.—Pray a tales, to plead that the number of jurymen be completed in this way. [From the phrase 'tales de circumstantibus,' tales, pl. of L. talis, such.]

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  • tales, noun, plural of tale.

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