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  • verb Present participle of impanel.

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Examples

  • "We've heard absolutely no evidence that impanelling an impartial jury will be impossible in this case," Lifson said.

    Judge: Media can see portions of documents in U-Va. lacrosse slaying case 2010

  • By contrast, if NAS were impanelling an investigation into matters biological or astronomical, they could choose from any number of eminent parties with totally opposing or more politely, “counter-balancing” views.

    UCAR and the NAS Panel « Climate Audit 2006

  • The impanelling of this NAS committee may be taken as one sign that the efforts of Steve and Ross have been having substantial effects.

    National Academies Panel on Temperature Reconstruction « Climate Audit 2006

  • With regard to the impanelling of this body it was the custom in London to choose one of the number from the part of the city east of Walbrook and the other half from the part west of Walbrook.

    The Customs of Old England

  • But he did not seem to take a great deal of interest in the impanelling of jurors in the case of one Rufus Maginty, who had won the temporary triumph of a "hung jury" under the handling of the state's case by

    Murder at Bridge Anne Austin

  • Whether impanelling the jury for the trial of a case is a long or short process will depend largely on the intelligence and firmness of the judge who holds the court.

    The American Judiciary Simeon E. Baldwin 1883

  • We often take more time in impanelling a jury than they would in trying the case.

    The American Judiciary Simeon E. Baldwin 1883

  • They were not embarrassed by a necessity of impanelling juries; they might call juries if they pleased; they might use "all other means and politic ways that they could devise."

    The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856

  • It occurs to the Justice who tries the case, that there will be difficulty in impanelling a jury of ghosts, and he doubts how twelve spirits who have no body at all, can be said to take a corporal oath, as required by law, unless, indeed, as in the case of the Peerage, the prisoner may be tried upon her honour.

    Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot Walter Scott 1801

  • Prospective jurors are asked relevant questions and are also probed for experience, employment, mental convictions and beliefs that may relate to their acceptability for impanelling.

    Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles J Karl Miller 2010

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