Jury vs Association - What's the difference?
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(legal) A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.
* "And so the jury' and he approached, as if this were a time of peace instead of one of the greatest world disturbances ever known in history, the question whether the prosecution had proved to the '''jury’s''' satisfaction that George Joseph Smith was guilty of murder. The '''jury''' were the shield which stood between him and death, unless, to the '''jury’s''' satisfaction, he was proved to be guilty. Yet while they were the shield of the man accused, they were also the Sword of the State; and if the man were proved guilty, they were the servants of the State to punish him. Their respective functions were these: he the judge, had to settle the law, and the '''jury''' must take the law from him. The ' jury were judges of fact."
A group of judges in a competition.
To judge by means of a jury.
(nautical) For temporary use; applied to a temporary contrivance.
The act of associating.
The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=(Jan Sapp)
, title=Race Finished
, volume=100, issue=2, page=164
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(statistics) Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
As nouns the difference between jury and association
is that jury is jury while association is the act of associating.jury
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) juree , from . (wikipedia jury)Noun
(juries)- 1952 : James Avery Joyce: Justice At Work'': (this edition Pan 1957) Page 92. commenting on'' R v Smith [1915] 84 LJKB 2153 (1914-15 All ER 262 CCA)
Meronyms
* jurorDerived terms
* grand jury * jury box * jury duty * jury panel * jury nullification * jury pool * jury trial * petit jury * the jury is still outDescendants
* Portuguese:Verb
Etymology 2
Early 1600s. Perhaps ultimately from (etyl) ajurie, from (etyl) adjutareAdjective
(-)- jury''' mast; '''jury rudder
Derived terms
* jurymast * jury-rig ----association
English
(wikipedia association)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations —culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}