Calling The Jury
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Successively drawing out of a box into which they have been previously put the names of the jurors on the panels annexed to the nisi prius rec. ord, and calling them over in the order in which they are so drawn. The twelve persons wliose names are first called, and who appear, are sworn as the jury, unless some just cause of challenge or excuse, with respect to any of them, shall be brought forward,