Juries Act 1584
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1584 c. 6 |
(27 Eliz. 1) C A P. VI.
'FOR the Returning of more able and more sufficient Jurors for Trials to be hereafter had between Party and Party, and for Reformation of Abuses in Sheriffs and other Ministers, who for Reward oftentimes do spare at home the most able and sufficient Freeholders, and return the Poorer and simpler Sort, least able to discern the Causes in Question, and most unable to bear the Charges of Appearance and Attendances in such Cases;' (2) Be it ordained and enacted by Authority of this present Parliament, That in all Cases where any Jurors to be returned for Trial of any Issue or Issues joined in any of the Queen's Majesty's Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas and the Exchequer, or before Justices of Assise, by the Laws of this Realm now in Force, ought to have Estate of Freehold in Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, of the clear yearly Value of forty Shillings, that in every such Case the Jurors that shall be returned from and after the End of this present Session of Parliament, shall every of them have Estate of Freehold in Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, to the clear yearly Value of four Pounds at the least; (3) and that the Writs ofVenire facias , which from and after the End of this present Session of Parliament shall be awarded and directed for the Impanelling of Juries in the Cases aforesaid, shall be in this Form, Regina, &c. Proecipimus, &c. quod venire facias coram, &c. duodecim liberos & legales homines de vicineto de B. quorum quilibet habeat quatuor libras terroe, tenementorum vel redituum per annum ad minus, per quos rei veritas, melius sciri poterit, & qui nec, &c. and so forth, the Residue of the said Writ after the ancient Form; (4) and that upon every such Writ and Writs ofVenire facias , the Sheriff or other Ministers unto whom the Making ofthe Panel shall appertain, shall not return in any such Panel any Person, unless he may dispend four Pounds by the Year at the least of Freehold, out of ancient Demesne, within the County where the Issue is to be tried; (5) upon Pain to forfeit for every Person being returned in any such Panel, that cannot dispend four Pounds Freehold as is aforesaid, twenty Shillings.
II Issues returned upon Jurors.
II. And further be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That upon every first Writ ofHabeas corpora , or Distringas with a...
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