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ordinary freeholders. To obtain a special 

 jury, a motion is made in court, and a 

 rule is granted thereupon, for the sheriff 

 to attend the master, prothonotary, or 

 other proper officer, with his freeholder's 

 book, and the officer is to take indiffer- 

 ently forty-eight of the principal free- 

 holders, in the presence of the attornies 

 on both sides, who are each of them 

 to strike off twelve, and the remaining 

 twenty-four are returned upon the pan- 

 nel. 



Jurors are punishable for sending for, 

 or receiving instructions from, either of 

 the parlies concerning the matter in ques- 

 tion. 



In causes of nisi prius, every person 

 whose name shall be drawn, and who 

 shall not appear after being openly called 

 three times, shall, on oath made of his 

 having been lawfully summoned, forfeit a 

 sum not exceeding 51. nor less than 405., 

 unless some reasonable cause of absence 

 be proved, by oath or affidavit, to the sa- 

 tisfaction of the judge. If any juror shall 

 take of either party to give his verdict, 

 he shall, on conviction, by bill or plaint, 

 before the court where the verdict shall 

 pass, forfeit ten times as much as he has 

 taken ; half to the King, and half to him 

 who shall sue. A man who shall assault 

 or threaten a juror for giving a verdict 

 against him, is highly punishable by fine 

 and imprisonment; and if he strike him 

 in the court, in the presence of the 

 judge of assize, he shall lose his hand 

 and his goods, and the profits of his 

 lands during life, and suffer perpetual 

 imprisonment. 



JURY mast, whatever is set up in room 

 of a mast that has been lost in a storm or 

 in an engagement, and to which a lesser 

 yard, ropes, and sails, are fixed. 



JUSSUEA, in botany, so named from 

 Antoine de Jussieu, a genus of the De- 

 candria Monogynia class and order. Na- 

 tural order of Calycanthemx. Onagrx, 

 Jussieu. Essential character : calyx four 

 or five parted, superior ; petals four or 

 five ; capsules four or five ceiled, oblong, 

 gaping at the corners ; seeds numerous, 

 minute. There are eleven species. These 

 are mostly herbaceous plants, natives of 

 North and South America, also of the 

 East and West Indies. 



JUSTICE signifies he who is deputed 

 by the King to do right by way of judg- 

 ment. 



JUSTICES in eyre, in ancient times, 

 were sent with commission into several 

 counties, to hear such causes especially as 

 were termed pleas of the crown. And this 



was done for the ease of the people, who 

 must otherwise have been hurried to the 

 King's Bench, if the case were too high 

 for the county court : they differed from 

 the justices of over and terminer, because 

 they were sent upon one or for special 

 causes, and to one place ; whereas the 

 justices in eyre were sent through the pro- 

 vince and counties of the land, with more 

 indefinite and general commissions. 



JUSTICES of gaol delivery, such as are 

 sent with commission to hear and deter- 

 mine all causes appertaining to such as 

 for any offence are cast into the gaol. 



JUSTICES of nisi prius, are the same 

 with justices of assize, for it is a com- 

 mon adjournment of a cause, to put it off 

 to such a day, nisi prins justiciarii venerint 

 ad eas partes ad capiendas assisas , and 

 upon this clause of adjournment, they are 

 called justices of nisi prius, as well as jus- 

 tices of assize, by reason of the writ or 

 action they have to deal in. 



JUSTICES ofoyer and terminer. As the 

 justices of assize and nisi priiis are ap- 

 pointed to try civil cases, so are the jus- 

 tices ofoyer and terminer, and gaol deli- 

 very, to try indictments for all crimes all 

 over the kingdom, at what are generally 

 denominated the circuits or assiz,es ; and 

 the towns where they come to exe- 

 cute their commission are called the as- 

 size towns, and are generally the county 

 towns. 



JUSTICES of the peace, are persons ap- 

 pointed by the King's commission, to at- 

 tend to the peace of the county where 

 they dwell. They were called guardians 

 of the peace till the thirty-sixth year of 

 Edw. III. c. 12, where they are called jus- 

 tices. A justice of the peace must, be- 

 fore he acts, take the oath of office, which 

 is usually done before some persons in the 

 county, by virtue of a dedimiis potestatem 

 out of chancery. Sheriffs, coroners, at- 

 torneys, and proctors^ may not act as jus- 

 tices of the peace. 



The power, office, and duty of this ma- 

 gistrate extends to an almost infinite num- 

 ber of instances, specified in some hun- 

 dreds of acts of parliament, and every 

 year accumulating. The commission of 

 of the peace does not determine by the 

 demise of the King, nor until six months 

 after, unless sooner determined by the 

 successor .- but before his demise, the 

 King may determine it, or may put out 

 any particular person, which is most com- 

 monly done by a new commission, leaving 

 out such person's name. 



Justices of the peace can only be ap- 

 pointed by the king's special commission, 



