Juries Act 1584
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1584 c. 7 |
(27 Eliz. 1) C A P. VII.
'WHEREAS there are within this Realm ofEngland , in sundry Counties of the same, divers Freeholders of one Name, and often and sundry Times some one or mo of them being returned and impanelled in Juries for Trial of Matters between Party and Patty; (2) and if it happen any one of them so returned to make Default, or lose Issues, when the same are estreated to be levied, the Bailiff or other Collectors thereof, for Lucre and Gain, do demand and require the same of every one within the same County that is of that Name; (3) and do perswade every Person that is dwelling in that County, and so named, that he is the Party that hath lost those Issues, and compel him to pay the same by the Distressof his or their Goods and Chattels, to their great Molestation and Trouble; (4) and yet nevertheless many Times do detain and keep all or the more Part of the Issues so collected, to their ow Use, in contempt of the Queen's Majesty's Laws, and to the great Grievance of her loving Subjects, and contrary to all Equity and good Conscience:'
II The Dwellingplace of every Juror shall be returned.
II. For Remedy whereof, be it enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament, That from and after forty Days after the End of this Session of Parliament, no Sheriff, Coroner or other Person to whom it shall appertain to make Return of any Writ, shall return any Juror dwelling out of any Liberty, without the true Addition of the Place of his Dwelling or Abode at the Time of the said Return, or within one Year next before the making of any such Return, or some other Addition, by which the Party returned may be known; (2) nor any Juror within any Liberty, with other Addition than such as shall be delivered to him by the Bailiff of the said Liberty, or his Deputy, certified under his or their Hand; (3) nor any Bailiff of any Liberty, nor any his or their Deputy or Deputies, shall of himself return any Juror, or deliver to the Sheriff, his Under-Sheriff, Deputy or Deputies, the Names of any Persons to be returned upon any Panel or Jury, without the true Addition certified under his or their Hands to the Sheriff, of the Place of Dwellingor abode of every Person so to be returned at the Time of the said Return, or within one Year next before the said Return, or some other Addition, by...
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