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Definition of: tales
(tā′lēz) noun plural ·les (-lēz) Law
1. Persons to be summoned for jury duty to make up a deficiency when the regular panel is exhausted by challenges.
2. The writ for summoning such persons. [<L tales (de circumstantibus) such (of the bystanders), plural of talis such a one; the phrase is from the writ summoning them]
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