Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tales \Ta"les\, n. [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.