Jurors (Scotland) Act 1825

1825 CHAPTER 22

An Act to regulate the Qualification and the Manner of enrolling Jurors in Scotland, and of choosing Jurors on Criminal Trials there; and to unite Counties for the Purposes of Trial in Cases of High Treason in Scotland.

[20th May 1825]

WHEREAS it is expedient that the Qualification of Persons in Scotland liable to serve as Jurors should be fixed and ascertained, and that the Mode of making up Rolls or Lists of Persons in Scotland liable to serve as Jurors should be regulated, and that the Mode of choosing Jurors in Criminal Trials there should be altered, and that Provisions should be made for uniting Counties for the Purposes of Trial in Cases of High Treason, there :

May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,