5 sentences with 'juries'
Example sentences and phrases with the word juries and other words derived from it.
• « Gaius Gracchus attacked corruption in the provinces, allying himself with the équita class and allowing équites to serve on juries that tried corruption cases. He also tried to speed up the redistribution of land. »
• « Prior to the 1764 Act, colonial violations of the Navigation Acts had been tried in local courts, where sympathetic colonial juries refused to convict traders on trial. »
• « The Administration of Justice Act allowed the royal governor to unilaterally move any trial of a Crown officer out of Massachusetts, a change designed to prevent hostile Massachusetts juries from deciding such cases. »
• « Since race united all whites as members of the master race, non-slaveholding whites participated in civic duties. They served on juries and voted. »