Country

[h. LB,t, patria; L. Fr. pais.] In pleading and practice. The inhabitants of a district from which a jury is summoned in a cause.* " To make a certain jury of the country,'* were words of the old writ of venire facias. A jury, summoned, or to be summoned. In pleading, a defendant *'puts himself upon the country," { ponit se super patriam,) i. e. refers the trial of his cause to a jury. A " conclusion to the country'* is an offer of trial by jury.

3 Bl. Com, 315. 3 SUph, Com, 589.

Steph. PI.

73, 78, 230, 237.