The process or result of empaneling someone; the act of enrolling people on a panel or jury.
From empanel + -ment suffix. The -ment suffix comes from Latin and Old French, added to verbs to create nouns representing actions or states.
The -ment suffix is incredibly productive in English—it transforms verbs into abstract nouns (like 'judge' to 'judgment'), and 'empanelment' shows how even obscure legal verbs can be nominalized this way.
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