Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier, CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA


JURY LIST. A paper containing the names of jurors impanelled to try a cause, or
it contains the names of all the jurors summoned to attend court. 


JUROR, practice. From juro, to swear; a man who is sworn or affirmed to serve on
a jury. 
  Jurors are selected from citizens, and may be compelled to serve by fine; they
generally receive a compensation for their services while attending court they
are privileged from arrest in civil cases. 


JURY. A body of men selected according to law, for the purpose of deciding some
controversy. 

  2. This mode of trial by jury was adopted soon after the conquest of England,
by William, and was fully established for the trial of civil suits in the reign
of Henry II.... In the old French law they are called inquests or tourbes of ten
men....

  3. Juries are either grand juries or petit juries. The former having been
treated of elsewhere, it will only be necessary to consider the latter. A petit
jury consists of twelve citizens duly qualified to serve on juries, impanelled
and sworn to try one or more issues of facts submitted to them, and to give a
judgment respecting the same, which is called a verdict. 

  4. Each one of the citizens so impanelled and sworn is called a juror. 

  5. The constitution of the United States directs, that "the trial of all
crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury;" and this invaluable
institution is also, secured by the several state constitutions. The
constitution of the United States also provides that in suits at common law,
where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial
by jury shall be preserved. Amend. VII. 

  6. It is scarcely practicable to give the rules established in the different
states to secure impartial juries; it may, however, be stated that in all, the
selection of persons who are to serve on the jury is made by disinterested
officers, and that out of the lists thus made out, the jurors are selected by
lot.

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