[Cowboy Bob]

A CMP official told police in January that employees had disconnected the jury-rigged line three times but that Gagne kept reconnecting it.

Never hear it called "jury-rigged" before. I always heard some other term.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Jerry-rigged?

[nickcarraway]

I guess they thought it insulted Germans.

[BenLurkin]

It’s a term from the age of sail.

The ignorant slur that leapt into your mind is a pernicious debauching of the term.

[marktwain]

Never hear it called “jury-rigged” before. I always heard some other term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_rigging

I have heard it for decades.

[Crucial]

Jury-rigged is the polite term. That saying has been around for a long time.

[cynwoody]

Never hear it called "jury-rigged" before. I always heard some other term.

It's of nautical, not legal, origin. According to the dictionary, it means "a temporary rig to replace a permanent rig that has been disabled, lost overboard, etc." It has come to mean anything makeshift.

[Red Badger]

It’s the PC term...............