petit jury

1. 1.

   a jury of 12 to determine the facts and decide the issue in civil or criminal proceedings

   Synonymspetty jury

   Broaderjury

   law

Questions about petit jury

What does petit jury mean?

petit jury means "a jury of 12 to determine the facts and decide the issue in civil or criminal proceedings".

What is another word for petit jury?

Close synonyms include petty jury. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is petit jury a common word?

petit jury is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.