oyez
oyez (oh-yes oroh-yez oroh-yay). [Law French] Hear ye. • The utterance oyez, oyez, oyez is usu. used in court by the public crier to call the courtroom to order when a session begins or when a proclamation is about to be made.
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countez
countez (kawn-teez). [Law French] Hist. A direction given by a clerk of a court to a crier, after a jury was sworn, to count the jury members. “Of this ignorance we may see daily instances, in the abuse of two legal terms of ancient French; one, the prologue to all proclamations, ‘oyez, or hear ye,’