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Injuries
Injury In"ju*ry, n.; pl. Injuries. [OE. injurie, L. injuria, fr. injurius injurious, wrongful, unjust; pref. in- not + jus, juris, right,law,justice: cf. F. injure. See Just, a.] Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character. For he that doeth injury shall receve that he did evil. --Wyclif(Col. iii. 25). Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments. --I. Watts. Riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage. --Milton. Note: Injury in morals and jurisprudence is the intentional doing of wrong. --Fleming. Syn: Harm; hurt; damage; loss; impairment; detriment; wrong; evil; injustice.
Perjuries
Perjury Per"ju*ry, n.; pl. Perjuries. [L. perjurium. See Perjure, v.] 1. False swearing. 2. (Law) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations. Note: If a man swear falsely in nonjudicial affidavits, it is made perjury by statute in some jurisdictions in the United States.

Meaning of Juries from wikipedia

- or judgment. Most trial juries are "petit juries", and usually consist of twelve people. A larger jury known as a grand jury has been used to investigate...
- juries. Civil juries are available in the United States and Canada in almost all cases where the only remedy sought is money damages. Coroner's jury Grand...
- prominent modern examples include grand juries in the United States, and to a lesser extent, Liberia and ****an. Grand juries perform both accusatory and investigatory...
- to decide sentences and to disregard juries' guilty verdicts, acting as a check against malicious juries. Jury nullification may also occur in civil...
- techniques not directly related to juries. Jury ****ng is "illegally or corruptly influencing a jury by making available for jury service persons known to be...
- with the difficulties ****ociated with hung juries has been to introduce supermajority verdicts to allow juries to convict defendants without unanimous agreements...
- matrons juries were composed of twelve knights and twelve matrons, summoned by a writ de ventre in****iendo ("to inspect the belly"). Civil juries of matrons...
- Los Juríes is a muni****lity and village in Santiago del Estero Province in Argentina. Ministerio del Interior (in Spanish) 28°28′S 62°06′W / 28.467°S...
- property—the trial was before a jury of 1,001 to 1,501 dikastai. In such large juries, they rule by majority. Juries were appointed by lot. Jurists cast...
- pleaded in abatement on a bill of appeal of murder. The Juries Act 1729 speaks of special juries as already well known, and it declares and enacts that...