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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tales \Ta"les\, n. [L., pl of talis such (persons).] (Law)
a pl Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or
about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the
number of jurors regularly summoned, being like or such
as the latter. --Blount. Blackstone.
b syntactically sing. The writ by which such persons are
summoned.
{Tales book}, a book containing the names of such as are
admitted of the tales. --Blount. --Craig.
{Tales de circumstantibus} [L.], such or the like from
those standing about
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