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" it has been held that if the jurors do not agree in their verdict before the judges are about to leave the town, though they are not to be threatened or imprisoned, the judges are not bound to wait for them, but may carry them round the circuit from town... "
The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided ... - Page 627
by Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879
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Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ..., Volume 42

Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 636 pages
...they agreed, and Blackstone says, "it has been held that if the jurors do not agree in their verdict before the Judges are about to leave the town, though...them round the circuit from town to town in a cart": 3 Blacks. Com. 376. From the manner of this mention it is to be inferred that this latter practice...
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Blackstone's Commentaries Abridged

William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...entirely vitiate the verdict. And it has been held, that if the jurors do not agree in their verdict before the judges are about to leave the town, though...them round the circuit from town to town in a cart. When they are all unanimously agreed, the jury return back to the bar; and, before they deliver their...
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The York Legal Record, Volume 12

Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 256 pages
...they agreed, and Blackstone says "it has been held that if the jurors do not agree in their verdict before the judges are about to leave the town, though...them round the circuit from town to town in a cart;" 3 Blacks Com. 376. From the manner of this mention it is to be inferred that this latter practice was...
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 44

Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 922 pages
...leave the town, though they are not to be threatened or imprisoned, the judges are not bound to Avait for them, but may carry them round the circuit, from town to town, in a cart." 3 Bl. Com. p. 376. From the manner of this mention, it is to be inferred that this latter practice...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 66

Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1036 pages
...held that, if the jurors do not agree in their verdict before the judges are about to leave the town, the judges are not bound to wait for them, but may -carry them to town in a cart" In the Doctor and Student (1518), at page 271, it is said: "I 'take not the law...
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A Selection of Cases and Other Authorities on Civil Procedure in Actions at Law

Austin Wakeman Scott - Civil procedure - 1919 - 770 pages
...they agreed, and Blackstone says, " It has been held that if the jurors do not agree in their verdict before the judges are about to leave the town, though...them round the circuit from town to town in a cart ": 3 Blacks. Com. 376. From the manner of this mention it is to be inferred that this latter practice...
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Pennsylvania Practice ...: Statutes, Rules, Forms, and Cases

David Werner Amram - Pennsylvania - 1922 - 270 pages
...they agreed, and Blackstone says, "It has been held that if the jurors do not agree in their verdict before the judges are about to leave the town, though...them round the circuit from town to town in a cart. " From the manner of this mention it is to be inferred that this latter practice was at least unusual...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 4

Law - 1877 - 658 pages
...376), "that if the jurors do not agree before the judges are about to leave the town, though they arc not to be threatened or imprisoned, the judges are...round the circuit, from town to town, in a cart." And, in as much as it must doubtless often happen, that before the end of such a progress one or more Sundays...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 47

Law - 1898 - 536 pages
...effect that "if the jurors do not agree in their verdict before the judges are about to leave the town, the judges are not bound to wait for them, but may carry them to town in a cart." In fact jurors, in the days of Coke and Blackstone, failing to agree were compelled...
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The Law Times Reports: Containing All the Cases Argued and ..., Volume 14

Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 946 pages
...once have read with feelings of humiliation as a lawyer, "that if the jurors do »ot agree, the judge may carry them round the circuit from town to town in a cart," that has been traced up to its source, and it rests on no foundation of judicial decision or actual...
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