ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1845.
Jurors.
Court that the said jury cannot agree upon a verdict, the Court shall discharge such jury, and shall cause a new jury to be impanelled, and sworn, and charged with any prisoner, and the action, indictment, or information shall be tried as if such first jury had not been impanelled.
20. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the verdict of the jury shall in all cases be given by the foreman, in open Court, and in the presence of all the said jury, and, if a criminal proceeding, in the presence of the prisoner, and shall be thereupon recorded by the Registrar of the said Court; and the said Registrar shall, before taking the said verdict, ask if they are all agreed thereon, and whether they find for the plaintiff, or for the defendant, and in the case of a prisoner whether they find such prisoner "Guilty" or "Not Guilty;" and the said jury shall either pronounce a general verdict for the plaintiff, or defendant, or of "Guilty" or "Not Guilty," or else shall return a special verdict finding the facts of the case: Provided always, that the said jury may acquit any prisoner of a part of the charge against him, and find him guilty of the remainder.
21. And be it further enacted and ordained, that in the construction of this Ordinance wherever in describing any person or party, matter or thing, the word importing the singular number only is used, the same shall be understood to include, and shall be applied to, several persons or parties as well as one person or party, and several matters or things as well as one matter or thing, respectively, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.
Verdict.
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Interpretation clause.
SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.
Summons to Jurors.
Mr. A. B.
You are hereby summoned to appear as a (either common or special as the case may be,) juror at the Supreme Court to be holden at
*
day of
from the said Court,
in this Colony, on the
next, and there to attend from day to day until you shall be discharged
(Signed,)
W. C., Sheriff.
N. B. The penalty for disobedience hereto is any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars in the case of a common juror, or two hundred dollars in the case of a special juror.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1851.]
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Summons to juror.
Sec. 9.
ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1845.
Jurors.
Court that the said jury cannot agree upon a verdict, the Court shall discharge such jury, and shall cause a new jury to be impanelled, and sworn, and charged with any prisoner, and the action, indictment, or information shall be tried as if such first jury had not been impanelled.
20. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the verdict of the jury shall in all cases be given by the foreman, in open Court, and in the presence of all the said jury, and, if a criminal proceeding, in the presence of the prisoner, and shall be there- upon recorded by the Registrar of the said Court; and the said Registrar shall, before taking the said verdict, ask if they are all agreed thereon, and whether they find for the plaintiff, or for the defendant, and in the case of a prisoner whether they find such prisoner "Guilty" or "Not Guilty;" and the said jury shall either pronounce a general verdict for the plaintiff, or defendant, or of "Guilty" or "Not Guilty," or else shall return a special verdict finding the facts of the case: Provided always, that the said jury may acquit any prisoner of a part of the charge against him, and find him guilty
of the remainder.
21. And be it further enacted and ordained, that in the construction of this Or- dinance wherever in describing any person or party, matter or thing, the word import- ing the singular number only is used, the same shall be understood to include, and shall be applied to, several persons or parties as well as one person or party, and several matters or things as well as one matter or thing, respectively, unless there be some- thing, in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.
Verdict.
135
Interpretation clause.
SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS,
Summons to Jurors.
Mr. A. B.
You are hereby summoned to appear as a (either common or special as the case may be,) juror at the Supreme Court to be holden at
*
day of
from the said Court,
in this Colony, on the
next, and there to attend from day to day until you shall be discharged
(Signed,)
W. C., Sheriff.
N. B. The penalty for disobedience hereto is any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars in the case
of a common juror, or two hundred dollars in the case of a special juror.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1851.]
15
Summons to juror.
Sec. 9.
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