1 definition found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Tales \Ta"les\, noun [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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