strike a jury

English

Verb

strike a jury (third-person singular simple present strikes a jury, present participle striking a jury, simple past struck a jury, past participle struck a jury or stricken a jury)

1. (law, jurisprudence) To constitute a special jury ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to reduce it to the number of persons required by law.
   • 1845, Pennyslvania Law Journal:

     After these motions were argued, the parties met in the prothonotary's office, and struck a jury, leaving twenty-four names in the panel not struck