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No challenge to juror for want of freehold if worth 50l.
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XLVII. And whereas it has been found that a sufficient number of freeholders cannot be casily had in the said city, qualified to act as jurors at the general assizes and court of record of the said city in causes or issues depending between party and party, whereby the trials of said causes or issues in the said respective courts are much retarded, to the great loss and delay of the parties concerned: and whereas there are a number of wealthy citizens in the said city who have not freeholds: be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from henceforth the want of freehold shall not be a legal or sufficient objection or challenge to any person summoned to be a juror in the said respective courts, but that any person, possessed of or worth the sum of fifty pounds sterling, over and above all his just debts, shall be qualified to be impannelled and sworn as a juror in the said respective courts, as if such person had a sufficient freehold.
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