| 单词 | jury duty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjury duty jury duty n. originally and chiefly U.S. the (legal) obligation to serve on a jury; service on a jury; = jury service n. at Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1829 Law Intelligencer Feb. 56 He had exercised or claimed no privileges as a citizen of Georgia, and when compelled to perform jury duty, had protested against its compromising his privileges as a citizen of Rhode-Island. 1890 N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 143 The States will, as many do already, supplement the provisions of law by exempting the men from jury duty and militia tax. 1922 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 16 473 The court held that the Nineteenth Amendment by adding women to the body of qualified electors made them eligible to jury duty. 2003 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 17 Dec. 15 The Brisbane couple met when selected for jury duty in November last year and spent four weeks considering and deliberating the sometimes gory evidence in a murder trial. < as lemmas |
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