JURY SYSTEM • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Jury system

... which he formulated his detailed indictment of the methods pursued by the existing courts of justice, and of the terrible dangers to the public security produced by their methods of administration. He did not merely impugn the verdicts which were the issue of a jury system so degraded as to have become the sport of a political "faction," but he dwelt on the public danger which sprang from the parasites of the courts, the gloomy brood of public accusers which is hatched by a rotten system, feeds on the impurities of ...

— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge