juratorial

English

Etymology

From Late Latin jūrātōrius + English -al..

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒʊərəˈtɔərɪəl/

Adjective

juratorial (not comparable)

1. (rare) Of or belonging to a jury.
   • 1847 November 20, The Railway Times, number 516; volume X, number 47, London: […] the Railway Times Office, page 1448:

     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.

   • 1865 October 4, The Pall Mall Gazette: An Evening Newspaper and Review, volume II, number 205, page 2:

     Twelve 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 December 22, The Standard, number 12,909, London, page 4:

     […]; 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.

   • 1875 September 3, “Old Courts and New Courts.—IV.”, in The Standard, number 15,945, London, page 2:

     From 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.

   • 1929, Edward Huntington Williams, “Mental Quirks of Juries on Medical Subjects”, in The Doctor in Court, Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, page 131:

     Even these vagaries may not have penetrated the juratorial perception, had not Bertram skidded a little into blasphemy.

   • 1939, The Journal of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, page 269:

     City 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.

   • 1955, Ellen Wedemeyer Moore, The Fairs of Medieval England: An Introductory Study, pages 269 and 277:

     Moreover, their niche was both lucrative and stable, for all the pelterers and most of the tanners were residents of the juratorial group in St. Ives. […] In the agrarian communities the employers were uniformly of juratorial stature.

   • 1979, Evelyn Berckman, Victims of Piracy: The Admiralty Court, 1575-1678, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 41:

     Almost every juratorial script is labelled on the back, Billa Vera.

   • 1984, R. A. Fajẹmisin, Primacy in Post-Odùduwà Yorubaland, page 59:

     […] of Africa by Leo Frobenius which support very strongly the evidences against the claim of Ogni of Ifę is one of the most flagrant instances of juratorial perversity to deprave and defoliate the minds of its rich and noble virtues.

   • 1991, Andrew I. Dale, A History of Inverse Probability: From Thomas Bayes to Karl Pearson, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., page 283:

     This is illustrated by a juratorial example.

   • 2006, Glenn Rowe, Chris Reed, “Translating Wigmore Diagrams”, in Paul E. Dunne, Trevor J.M. Bench-Capon, editors, Computational Models of Argument: Proceedings of COMMA 2006, IOS Press, page 178:

     Perhaps therefore, it is this linguistic or rhetorical effect that Wigmore is tackling with his “negatory” class (given that juratorial presentation is a constant motivation for Wigmore).