"hung jury" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hung juries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} hung jury (plural hung juries)
  1. (law) A jury in a legal trial that is unable to reach or come to a verdict because the jurors cannot agree on a decision. Categories (topical): Law Related terms: hung parliament, jury is out Translations (jury that is unable to reach a verdict): 懸而未決的陪審團 (Chinese Mandarin), 悬而未决的陪审团 (xuán'érwèijué de péishěntuán) (Chinese Mandarin), 懸案陪審團 (Chinese Mandarin), 悬案陪审团 (xuán'àn péishěntuán) (Chinese Mandarin), erimielinen valamiehistö (Finnish), erimielinen jury (Finnish), but see uneinige Jury [feminine] (German), határozatképtelen esküdtszék (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-hung_jury-en-noun-ENUvwTh9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations Topics: law

Inflected forms

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