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Tales
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What's The Definition Of Tales?Synonyms | Synonyms for Tales: Related Terms | Find terms related to Tales: See Also | Tales In Webster's Dictionary \Ta"les\, n. [L., pl. of talis such (persons).] (Law)
(a) pl. 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. --Blount. Blackstone.
(b) syntactically sing. The writ by which such persons are
summoned.
{Tales book}, a book containing the names of such as are
admitted of the tales. --Blount. --Craig.
{Tales de circumstantibus} [L.], such, or the like, from
those standing about.
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