|
PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.
|
2687
|
|
|
Page.
|
|
On a trial by jury in the general or county courts, twenty persons
|
|
|
from the panel of petit jurors shall be drawn by ballot by the clerk
|
|
|
— 1797, ch. 87, sec. 9, ........
|
350
|
|
Their names shall be written on two lists, one to be delivered to each
|
|
|
party, or his counsel — 1797, ch. 87, sec. 9, .
|
350
|
|
Each party may strike out four, and the remaining twelve shall be
|
|
|
sworn as the jury in the cause — 1797, ch. 87, sec. 9, .
|
350
|
|
On refusal by the parties, or either of them$ the court to strike out
|
|
|
eight, and the remaining twelve to be sworn — 1797, ch. 87, sec. 9,
|
350
|
|
This act not to take away the right to challenge the array or polls of
|
|
|
any panel in the manner allowed by the laws of the state — 1797,
|
|
|
ch. 87, sec. 9, ..........
|
350
|
|
Nor to affect the provisions respecting petitions for freedom — 1797,
|
|
|
ch. 87, sec. 9, ..........
|
350
|
|
Talismen may be summoned where, without them, there would not be
|
|
|
twenty — 1798, ch. 94, ........
|
2687
|
1798.—CHAPTER 94.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, an Act for the direction of sheriffs and coro-
ners in the return of jurors, and for the better regulation of juries.
Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
general court, and every county court, shall at all times have
power to direct talismen to be summoned to serve on juries, where,
without such talismen, there would not be twenty of the original
panel, exclusive of the jury charged, from whom a jury can be
formed, and if the parties, or their counsel, agree, the drawing
of a panel of twenty jurors in any cause may be dispensed with.
|
In actions for the penalty of a bond, &c. the jury may, under the di-
|
Page.
|
|
rection of the court, on the plea of payment or performance, find
|
|
|
by verdict, what money or tobacco is due to the plaintiff— 1785,
|
|
|
ch. 80, sec. 13, ..........
|
234
|
|
In petitions for freedom, either party may apply to the court for a trial
|
|
|
by jury, and the attending jury shall be charged as the law directs
|
|
|
—1796, ch. 67, sec. 22, ........
|
341
|
|
Either party may challenge peremptorily twelve jurors impanelled to
|
|
|
try the facts, and for want of a sufficient number remaining a tales,
|
|
|
at the prayer of either party, may be awarded— 1796, ch. 67,
|
|
|
sec. 24, .........
|
341
|
|
Quakers, Nicolites, Menonists, Tunkers, and others holding it unlawful
|
|
|
to take an oath on any occasion, allowed to make their solemn
|
|
|
affirmation as a qualification as jurors, to be of the same avail as
|
|
|
an oath to all intents and purposes — 1809, ch. 62, p. 565 ; 1815,
|
|
|
ch. 182, ...........
|
637
|
|
The court to be first satisfied by testimony that such person is one of
|
|
|
those who profess to be conscientiously scrupulous of taking an
|
|
|
oath— 1809, ch. 62, p. 565 ; 1815, ch. 182, .....
|
637
|
|
 |
