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单词 open verdict
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open verdict
c. With particularizing addition; esp. as open verdict, a verdict of a coroner's jury affirming the commission of a crime (but not specifying the criminal), or the occurrence of a suspicious but unexplained death.
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ignoramus1583
privy verdict1628
non liquet1656
ignoring1682
open verdict1769
sealed verdict1891
majority verdict1905
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Yyy1v/1 This verdict is two-fold: either generall or especiall... A general verdict is that, which is giuen or brought into the Court, in like generall termes to the generall issue.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Yyy1v/2 This speciall verdict, if it containe any ample declaration of the cause, from the beginning to the end, is also called a verdict at large.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. 226 b There be two kindes of verdicts; viz. one generall, and another at large or especiall.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. 226 b It is therefore called a speciall Verdict or a Verdict at large, because they finde the speciall matter at large, and leaue the iudgement of law thereupon to the Court.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 227 b After they be agreed they may,..if the Court be risen, giue a priuie verdict before any of the Judges.
1665 G. Duncombe Tryals per Pais xiii. 166 A Special Verdict, or Verdict at large, is so called, because it findeth the special matter at large, and leaveth the Judgement of the Law thereupon, to the Court.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 377 The only effectual and legal verdict is the public verdict; in which they openly declare to have found the issue for the plaintiff, or for the defendant.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 354 The jury..cannot, in a criminal case, give a privy verdict. But an open verdict may be either general, guilty, or not guilty.
1835 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) Where a verdict is given by thirteen jurors, it is said to be a void verdict; because no attaint would lie.
1854 J. T. Coleridge in T. F. Ellis & C. Blackburn Reports (1855) III. 952 We shall grant a new trial if the verdict is perverse, but not if the evidence is merely conflicting.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iii. 18 Inquest to-morrow, and no doubt open verdict.
1884 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 12 285 If..a jury in a criminal case give a perverse verdict, the law has provided no remedy.
1891 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (Boston ed.) vii. 171 Judge Gedney says that you can bring in a sealed verdict without waiting for him.
1977 ‘M. Innes’ Honeybath's Haven xiii. 123 His jury..will bring in what is called an open verdict.
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