PRICKING NOTE
Categories: Constitutional
Definition (1910 Edition)
impartiality, as it is said, lets the point of it fall upon one of the three names nominated for each county, etc., and the person upon whose name it chances to fall is sheriff for the ensuing year. This is called “pricking for sheriffs.’ Atk. Sher. 18.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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