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principal challenge
1. "Proper defectum" - for disability: as, negligence, alienage, infancy, unsound mind, insufficient property. 2. "Propter affectum" - for bias or partiality: as, opinion formed; of kin to a party, or of the same fraternity or corporation; his attorney, servant, or tenant, or entertained by him; promised money for verdict; sued by exceptant in an action involving legal malice; being formerly a juror or an arbitrator in the matter; influenced by scruples against the punishment. 3. "Propter delictum" - for an offense committed: as, convicted of treason, forgery, perjury, or other crimen falsi.
Source : William C. Anderson, A Dictionary of Law (1893)
Language : English