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tales

  [teylz, tey-leez]
–noun Law.
1. (used with a plural verb) persons chosen to serve on the jury when the original panel is insufficiently large: originally selected from among those present in court.
2. (used with a singular verb) the order or writ summoning such jurors.
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Origin:
1300–50; ME < ML tālēs (dē circumstantibus) such (of the bystanders)
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tale

  [teyl] ,
–noun
1. a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
2. a literary composition having the form of such a narrative.
3. a falsehood; lie.
4. a rumor or piece of gossip, often malicious or untrue.
5. the full number or amount.
6. Archaic. enumeration; count.
7. Obsolete. talk; discourse.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE talu series, list, narrative, story; c. D taal speech, language, G Zahl number, ON tala number, speech. See tell 1
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tale   (tāl)   
n.  

  1. A recital of events or happenings; a report or revelation: told us a long tale of woe.

  2. A malicious story, piece of gossip, or petty complaint.

  3. A deliberate lie; a falsehood.

  4. A narrative of real or imaginary events; a story.

  5. Archaic A tally or reckoning; a total.


[Middle English, from Old English talu; see del-2 in Indo-European roots.]
tales   (tālz, tā'lēz)   
n.   pl. tales

  1. A group of people summoned to fill vacancies on a jury that has become deficient in number.

  2. The writ allowing for a summons of jurors.


[Middle English, from Medieval Latin tālēs dē circumstantibus, such (persons) from those standing about (a phrase used in the writ), from Latin, pl. of tālis, such; see to- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

tale 
O.E. talu "story, tale, the action of telling," from P.Gmc. *talo (cf. Du. taal "speech, language"), from PIE base *del- "to recount, count." The secondary Eng. sense of "number, numerical reckoning" (c.1200) probably was the primary one in Gmc., cf. teller (see tell) and O.Fris. tale, M.Du. tal "number," O.S. tala "number," O.H.G. zala, Ger. Zahl "number." The ground sense of the Mod.Eng. word in its main meaning, then, might have been "an account of things in their due order." Related to talk and tell. Meaning "things divulged that were given secretly, gossip" is from c.1350; first record of talebearer "tattletale" is 1478.
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Main Entry: ta·les
Pronunciation: 'tA-"lEz
Function: noun plural
Etymology: from the Medieval Latin phrase tales de circumstantibus such (persons) of the bystanders; from the use of the phrase in the writ summoning them
often attrib : persons added to a jury from among those available in or about the courthouse or in the county to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned tales juror>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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