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Meaning: (law)To beputontrialin acourt of law; go on trial.1658(indicated as1657),The Practise of the Sheriffs Court London.[…],[London]:[s.n.],→OCLC; reprinted London: Arthur Taylor,[…],c.1830,→OCLC,page16:Also observe that if there be six weeks between the bayl and issue joyning, the Defendant shall not remove his playnt by writ, but shallstand tryallbelow.1723, W[illiam]Bohun, “Fees Incident to the Sheriffs Court, &c. of London”, inPrivilegia Londini: Or, The Rights, Liberties, Privileges, Laws, and Customs of the City of London.[…], 3rd edition, London:[…]D. Browne, W. Mears, R. Gosling, T. Woodward, J. Hooke, F. Clay, and J. Stephens,→OCLC,page462:Alſo obſerve, That if there be ſix Weeks between the Bail and Iſſue Joyning, the Defendant ſhall not remove his Plaint by Writ, but ſhallſtand Tryalbelow.A quotation of the 1658 work above.1731, Philip a Limborch [i.e.,Philipp van Limborch], “How the Prisoner Hath a Copy of the Evidence, without the Names of the Witnesses”, inSamuel Chandler, transl.,The History of the Inquisition.[...]Translated into English[...]In Two Volumes.[…], volume I, London:[…]J. Gray,[…],→OCLC,page176:The Witneſſes having been re-examined, a Copy of the Proofs brought againſt the Criminals is uſually given to them, that they may the ſooner determine, whether they will give up the Cauſe, orſtand Trial, [...]1873August 30,Charles Morris, “A Life in the Balance”, inDio[cletian] Lewis, editor,To-Day, volume II, number 9 (number 44 overall), Philadelphia, Pa.: To-Day Printing and Publishing Co.,→OCLC, chapter XXII (Tried for His Life),page138, column 1:You are to judge between the Commonwealth and the prisoner, whostands trialfor the murder, by poison, of Elizabeth Gordon.1999,John Lie,Nancy Abelmann, “The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the ‘Black–Korean Conflict’”, in Kwang Chung Kim, editor,Koreans in the Hood: Conflict with African Americans, Baltimore, Md.; London:Johns Hopkins University Press,→ISBN,page75:This anger escalated and later exploded when innocent verdicts were given to four police officersstanding trialfor the beating ofRodney King.2015, Pate McMichael, “The Parable of Two Goats: Hayneville, October–December 1965”, inKlandestine: How a Klan Lawyer and a Checkbook Journalist HelpedJames Earl RayCover Up His Crime, Chicago, Ill.:Chicago Review Press,→ISBN, part IV (Krossings in Klan Kountry, 1965–1966),page130:Four years later, in December 1965, an NSRP [National States' Rights Party] member named Hubert Strange, twenty-five,stood trialfor killingWillie Brewster, a blue-collar African American.; (idiomatic)Tosustainthe trial orexaminationof acause; not togive upwithout trial.1637–1638(date written),Richard Brome, “The Damoiselle, or The New Ordinary. A Comedy.”, inA[lexander] Brome, editor,Five New Playes,[…], London:[…]Humphrey Moseley,Richard Marriot, andThomas Dring,[…], published1653,→OCLC, Act II, scene i,signature [C7], verso:Nay, it ſeems, / My Boy has charg'd thee vvith't, before his yeares / Could vvarrant his ability in Combate, / And ſo is fallen; Or thou, not daringſtand/Tryallin ſuch a cauſe, by treachery / Haſt cut him off; And com'ſt to make thy peace: / Preſuming on my Poverty, vvith money.c.1700,Charles W[ashington] Baird, “The Churches: Early Ministry. 1674–1700.”, inChronicle of a Border Town: History of Rye, Westchester County, New York 1660–1870[…], New York, N.Y.: Anson D. F. Randolph and Company[…], published1871,→OCLC,page281:At a towne meting in Rye March 1, 1699–1700, the towne hath past a vote that they will notstand tryalwith Mr. Woodbridg. At the same towne meting the towne hath by vote agreed that what shall be wanting of the mony that is due to MrWoodbridg from the several persons that hath not yet paid the Remainder of the mony the town will make it up by way of supply in the next towne rate.1741August 8,F[rancis] L[ister] Hawks, quotingGeorge Whitefield, “American Ecclesiastical History. Art. VII.—Whitefield’s Accusations against the Early Missionaries to America, and Their Defence. [Letter from Mr. Whitefield to the Bishop of Oxford. On Board the Mary and Ann, Bound from London to Scotland, July 28th, 1741 (Julian calendar).]”, in [Nathaniel Smith Richardson], editor,The Church Review, and Ecclesiastical Register, volume III, number 3, New Haven, Conn.: George B. Bassett,[…], published October 1850,→OCLC,pages442–443:Those at a distance cannot well conceive how contemptible our Church is abroad, and that owing to the unworthy, immoral, and negligent lives of the generality of our Missionarys, several of which have come over to us, because they could notstand tryalamong the dissenters, or have lived too loosely among them.
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