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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BURTON’S LESSEE v. PRETTYMAN.
    Supreme Court.
    November 3, 1793.
    
      Read’s Notebook, 3.
      
    
    
      Bayard, counsel for [-],
    
    said the former Chief Justice had said he knew of no rule of practice, “that had been established by our courts, but this, that a struck jury should continue until a new application,” to which the Chief Justice Read replied, “I have heard the former Chief Justice complain that the struck juries stood too long, and I am of opinion if they stand longer than one term, it is by agreement.”
    
      
       This case is also reported in Wilson’s Red Book, 6.
      
    
    
      
       Blank in manuscript.
    
   [Note.] It is the law in England, vide 1 Term 453.