ORDINANCE No. 18 OF 1887.
Jury Consolidation.
10. When the jury lists shall be completed and returned to the Registrar, he shall cause the names of the special and common jurors to be written on separate cards of equal size and placed in separate boxes to be called the Special Jurors Ballot Box and the Common Jurors Ballot Box; which boxes shall be kept locked.
11. Whenever it shall be requisite to summons a common jury, a Deputy Registrar shall, in the presence of the Registrar, open and draw from the Common Jurors Ballot Box eighteen names in civil cases, and thirty names in criminal cases to form a panel and the cards, with the names of those who shall have served in civil cases, and who shall have been summoned in criminal cases so drawn, shall be locked up in a separate box until all the names in the ballot box shall be exhausted by subsequent panels, when all the names of the jurors on the common jurors list shall be returned to the Common Jurors Ballot Box, if required, for the purposes of the current year, and in such case the names shall again be redrawn in manner aforesaid. Provided always that whenever from any cause the jurors drawn cannot be served it shall be lawful for the Registrar to re-open the ballot box, and draw fresh names therefrom as often as may be necessary to secure the full number of thirty jurors at the criminal sessions.
12. Whenever it shall be necessary to summon a special jury, such jury shall be drawn in the manner herein before provided for obtaining a common jury with this exception that in civil cases the number to be drawn from the ballot box in the first instance shall be twenty-four, in criminal cases twelve.
Formation of special and common jurors. [No. 11 of 1864, s. 12, No. 7 of 1868, s. 1, No. 24 of 1882, s. 7.]
Panel of common jurors.
Formation of panel of special jurors. [No. 11 of 1864, s. 17.]
Special jury in civil suits. [No. 11 of 1864, s. 17.]
13. If either the plaintiff or the defendant in any suit or action, shall be desirous of having such suit or action tried by a special jury, it shall be lawful for the Court or a Judge thereof to order and appoint a special jury to be drawn by the Registrar in the manner hereinbefore provided; and in such cases the parties shall appear before the Registrar on a day fixed by him, and a Deputy Registrar shall then in presence of the said Registrar and of the parties draw from the Special Jurors Ballot Box the requisite number of names. The Registrar shall then appoint a day for striking the said jury; on the day so appointed the parties shall attend and shall each alternately strike off one name till the said list is reduced to twelve; the names of the twelve struck off shall be replaced in the ballot box, and the remaining twelve shall be the special jury panel.