tales

noun plural

ta·​les

ˈtā-ˌlēz

often attributive

: persons added to a jury from among those available in or about the courthouse or in the county to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned

a tales juror

Word History

Etymology

from the Medieval Latin phrase tales de circumstantibus such (persons) of the bystanders; from the use of the phrase in the writ summoning them