Juries Act 1854 (SA)

No. 8.

An Act to amend An Ordinance to regulate Trials by Jury in South

Australia. "

[Assented to, November 18, 1854.1

HEREAS, by Ordinance No. 12, 1843, intituled, "An Or&- P,cnmbls.

provided that the names of no more than forty-eight nor less than	W name to regulate Trials by Jury in South Australia," i t is
twenty-four persons duly qualified to serve as Jurors shall be in- cluded in any general venire,ficks issued to the Sheriff out of the Supreme Court: And whereas it is expedient that the number
of persons, duly qualified as aforesaid, included in any such general venire facias, should be varied from time to time, as the business
before'the Court shall require, at the discretion of the Judges of the said Court-Be it therefore Enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. It shall be lawful for the Supreme Court, or a Judge thereof, in Judges may direct

any general senire facias, issued to the Sheriff out of the Supreme	be Oum-
Court, for the trial of all issues, to be tried, or damages to be assessed,
from time to time, as and when the sittings of the Supreme Court
hall be holden, to direct the Sheriff to summon any number of per-
sons, not less than twenty-four nor more than eighty, duly qualified, to serve as jurors, as by a Judge may be thought fit, anything in the &d recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

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