Juries Act 1825

LIV Persons summoned to serve on Juries in inferior Courts not attending, (See 29 G. 2. c. 19.) to forfeit not more than 40s. nor less than 20s. unless the Court be satisfied with the Cause of Absence. Fine leviable by Distress and Sale. Fine to be paid to the proper Officer of the Court, to be disposed of as other Fines of Court.

And be it further enacted, That every Man duly summoned and returned to serve upon any Jury for the Trial of any Cause or criminal Prosecution, to be tried in any Court of Record holden within the said City of London, other than the Courts herein-before respectively mentioned, or in any other Liberty, Franchise, City, Borough, or Town who shall not appear and serve on such Jury (after being openly called Three Times, and on Proof being made on Oath of the Man so making Default having been duly summoned) shall forfeit and pay for every such his Default, such Fine, not exceeding Forty Shillings nor less than Twenty Shillings, as the Court shall deem reasonable to impose, unless some just Cause for such Defaulter's Absence shall be made appear by Oath or Affidavit, to the Satisfaction of the Court; and that if any Person on whom such Fine shall be imposed shall refuse to pay the same to the Person who shall be authorized by the Court to receive the same, it shall be lawful for such Court then, or at its next Sitting, and the same is hereby authorized and required, by Order of the Court, signed by the proper Officer thereof, to cause every such Fine to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Person on whom such Fine shall have been imposed; and the overplus Money, if any, which shall remain after Payment of such Fine, and deducting the reasonable Charges of such Distress and Sale, shall be rendered to the Person whose Goods and Chattels shall have been so distrained and sold ; and that every Fine which shall be so imposed shall, when received or levied, be paid by the Person who shall receive or levy the same to the proper Officer of the Liberty, Franchise, City, Borough, or Town in which the Court was holden wherein such Fine was imposed, to be applied to such Uses as Issues set on Jurors, or other Fines set in Courts holden within such Liberty, Franchise, City, Borough, or Town are by Charter, Prescription, or Usage applicable.