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Jury Process

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In practice

The writs for summoning a jury, viz., in England, venire juratores facias, and distringae juratores, or habeas corpora juratorum. These writs are now abolished, and jurors are summoned by precept.

1 Chit. Archb. Prac. (by Prent.) 344; Com. Law Proc. Act 1852, §§ 104, 105; 3 Chit. St. 519.