Peremptory challenge - Request by a party that a judge not allow a certain prospective juror as a member of the jury. No reason or cause need be stated. (See challenge for cause.) ...
Peremptory Challenge
The right given to either parties in selection of juries, where they have right to reject certain prospective jurors without any cause or reason.
Peremptory Challenge: A challenge that may be used to reject a certain number of prospective jurors without giving a reason.
Perjury: Intentional false statement of material importance made under oath; lying under oath.
Peremptory Challenge: A challenge to a particular juror that requires no reason. Normally an attorney has a limited number of these challenges.
Peremptory Challenge
A formal objection to a potential juror for which no specific reason is given, unlike a challenge for cause.
Perfection:
An action that has to be taken before a security interest is secured.
peremptory challenge - Opportunity during "voire dire" (jury selection) in which a party to a lawsuit may dismiss a member of the jury pool without cause.
Perjury - The criminal offense of making a false statement under oath.
Peremptory challenge - Procedure which parties in an action may use to reject prospective jurors without giving reason. Each side is allowed a limited number of such challenges.
peremptory challenge
n. the right of the plaintiff and the defendant in a jury trial to have a juror dismissed before trial without stating a reason.
peremptory challenge: the challenge which may be used to reject a certain number of prospective jurors without assigning any reason
perjury: the act of lying or stating falsely under oath ...
peremptory challenge - Each party to a suit tried to a jury has the right to peremptorily "challenge" (reject) a certain number of prospective jurors without giving a reason.
PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES: Limited number of challenges each side in a trial can use to eliminate potential jurors without stating a reason. May not be used to keep members of a particular race or sex off the jury.
Peremptory Challenge - The right to challenge a judge or prospective juror without assigning a reason for the challenge.
Perjury - The criminal offense of making a false statement under oath.
peremptory challenge: A challenge to a potential juror in a case, by either the defense attorney or the prosecuting attorney, ...
Peremptory Challenge: The rejection of a prospective juror by the attorneys in a case, without having to give a reason. State law defines the number of peremptory challenges available.
Perjury: Making false statements under oath.
A peremptory challenge is a challenge made without specifying any particular reason. Only a limited number of peremptory challenges are allowed.
In most jurisdictions each party to an action, both civil and criminal, has a specified number of such challenges and after using all his peremptory challenges he is required to furnish a reason for subsequent challenges.
" Peremptory challenge. For which no reason is assigned. Principal challenge. 1. "Proper defectum" - for disability: as, negligence, alienage, infancy, unsound mind, insufficient property. 2.
Each side also exercises peremptory challenges to further shape the composition of the jury. Peremptory challenges are used to dismiss a prospective juror without the need to provide a reason for dismissal.
Peremptory challenges are those which are made without assigning any reason, and which the court must allow. The number of these which the prisoner was allowed at common law in all cases of felony, was thirty-five, or one under three full juries.
may be a "challenge for cause" on the basis the juror had admitted prejudice or shows some obvious conflict of interest (for example, the juror used to work for the defendant) which the judge must resolve. More common is the ""peremptory challenge, ...
Challenge for cause -A request from a party to a judge that a certain prospective juror not be allowed to be a member of a jury because of specified causes or reasons. (Also, see peremptory challenge.) ...
Objection to the seating of a particular juror for a stated reason (usually bias or prejudice for or against one of the parties in the lawsuit.) The judge has the discretion to deny the challenge. This differs from peremptory challenge.
Chambers ...
suspicion of unfitness on which the judge rules; and a limited number of peremptory challenges. Once selected, the jury (usually with several alternates) takes an oath to act fairly and without preconceptions.
 See also: Juror, Challenge, Peremptory, Cause, Court
  
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