ARRAY, in Law,the ranking or ordering a Jury or Inquest of Men impaneled on any Cause. See JURY, INQUEST, etc.
The Word may be derived either from the obsolete French Array, Order, or from Raye, a Line—Hence the Verb, to Array a Panel, Ann. 3 Hen. V. etc. that is, to set forth the Men empaneled one by another. The Array shall be quashed, ib. By the Statute, every Array in Assize ought to be made four days before.—Hence also, to challenge the Array; see CHALLENGE.
