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The following 6 entries include the term trial by.
trial by battle
: a trial of a dispute formerly determined by the outcome of a personal battle or combat between the parties or in an issue joined upon a writ of right between their champions
trial by certificate
: a trial of an issue formerly determined exclusively by the testimony of a person (as a military officer) certifying to what is peculiarly within his knowledge (as that a soldier is absent)
trial by inspection
: a trial of a case formerly settled by the individual observation and decision of the judge upon the testimony of his own senses without the intervention of a jury
trial by record
: a trial in which a matter of record is pleaded and in which the opposite party pleads that there is no such record and which involves inspection of the record itself and no other evidence compare nul tiel record
trial by the country
: trial by a jury chosen from the country or vicinity
trial by jury
noun phrase: a trial that is decided by a jury
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