Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	error_n	reverse_v	writ_n	13,861	5	10.3556	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88850	The bribe-takers of jury-men partiall, dishonest, and ignorant discovered and abolished; and, honest, judicious, able, and impartiall restored; and their equall election to try causes, and find inquests. / Written, proposed, and tendred to the same intent and purpose as all the former proposalls, to and for the saving to the honest people of this nation the thirty hundred thousand pounds yearly are. By William Leach of the Middle-Temple.	Leach, William.	1652 (1652)	Wing L772; Thomason E659_1; ESTC R202689	11,038	16

Cause or Suit upon which they have been impannelled retorned and sworn have sometimes found contrary to their evidence against the other party or parties therein who hath been of another Quality Condition Science Profession Art Mystery or calling which or the professors thereof they have hated or envyed and at other time have given excessive or too much damages against such party or parties in such Action Cause or suite whom or such his Quality Condition Science Art Mystery or Calling they have so hated and envyed It is proposed to be desired that it may Be Enacted That hereafter no Sheriff shall return or impannell any man to be upon any Jury to try any Cause Action or Suit or to make any inquiry concerning the same being of the value of or by the same demanded 40 shillings or above unlesse such man shall be commonly reputed by his neighbours to have an estate in Lands or Tenements Goods or Chattalls over and above all charges issues and reprises and besides sufficient to pay or satisfie all his Debts to the value of 40l to be sold or above for every 40 shillings of such value or so to be demanded and according to the same value shall be taxed or assessed to or for the relief of the poor and other parish taxations in the parish where he shall be inhabiting or dwelling and be a free denizen of this Nation And that if any man suspected by any plaintif or plaintifs defendant or defendants demandant or demandants tenant or tenants to be otherwise shall be retorned or impannelled upon for or concerning any such cause so to be tryed or inquired of that then at the request and challenge of any of such plaintif or plaintifs defendant or defendants demandant or demandants tenant or tenants Oath by him her or them or any person of such credit or so commonly accounted made to the contrary of such repute the Judg or Judges Justiciar or Justiciars Sheriff or Sheriffs Mayor or Mayors Steward or Stewards or other Officer or Officers who shall try such Cause or take such Inquest or before whom such Cause shall be tryed or Inquest taken shall put every such person so Retorned or impannelled to be a Jury-man so suspected upon or to his Oath before such person shall be sworn to try such Cause or so to inquire whether or not he then have such an estate to or of such value over and above all charges issues and reprises sufficient to pay or satisfie all his debts besides and that if the same person to be a Juror shall not depose upon his Oath that he then have such an estate then such person shall not be sworn upon for or concerning such triall or Inquest but shall be rejected and another having such Estate or not excepted against in that behalf shall be sworn so to try or inquire in his place and stead And that such Judge or Judges Justiciar or Justiciars Justice or Justices Sheriff or Sheriffs Mayor or Mayors be impowered authorised and compelled to administer and take such Oath being ready drawn and tendred to them in writing without taking any thing for the same directly or indirectly And that every such man so to be retorned or impannelled or make Oath and depose false shall be subject and liable to all the paines and penalties enacted and provided in and by the Lawes and Statutes of this Nation against perjured persons And that if any the men Retorned or impannelled and sworn of or upon any Jury or Inquest in or concerning any Action Cause or Suit after they have heard or shall hear their Evidence concerning the same and their charge given to them or taken concerning the same and shall depart from the Bar where or from him or them before whom having authority in that behalf they received or shall receive the same and stay by the space of 4 hours then next after before they do or shall retorn thither or before him or them before whom they so received or took or shall receive or take the same Evidence that then every of such Jury or Inquest men shall have one little white ball and another black delivered unto him and that when the major or greater part of the men of such Jury or Inquest be or shall be agreed to give in their Verdict or Inquest found or to be found concerning the same then every of them who shall finde or give their Verdict or Inquest for such plaintif or plaintifs demandant or demandants in such Cause Action or Suit shall and may deliver and put a white ball wrapped in a note or peice of paper with his name therein written and such black ball without any thing about the same into a box or bagge privately to be kept for that purpose by him or them before whom such Verdict or Inquest be or shall be to be given or delivered up or to his or their Deputy or Deputies and that every of them who shall finde or give their Verdict or Inquest for such defendant or defendants tenant or tenants in the same Cause Action or Suit shall and may deliver and put such black ball so wrapped in a piece of paper with his name therein written and such white ball without any thing about the same into such box or bag so to be kept And that every of such of him or them before whom such Verdict or Inquest is or shall be to be given or delivered up be impowered and compelled to keep such note secret and not suffer or permit any to see or know the contents of the same neither shall any of such Jurors reveal to any other what note he shall so deliver till after an attaint brought against such Jurors or Inquest men or years past after such Verdict be or shall be delivered up but onely such Judge or Judges Justiciar or Justiciars Justice or Justices Sheriff or Sheriffs Mayor or Mayors before or to whom such Balls be or shall be delivered shall declare and pronounce for which party in such Action Cause or Suit most of such notes or pieces of paper were so delivered or put into such Box or Bag And then Judgement or Judgements or other proceedings shall be given and goe and be for him or them for whom most of such notes or papers shall be so delivered or put and stand be good and available in Law to all intents and purposes untill the same be or shall be stayed by matter to be moved in arrest of Judgement before the same shall be entred or after reversed by writ of Errour or Attaint And that if such Jurors be agreed the one half of them to finde for the one party or parties in such Action Cause or Suit and the other half of those Jurors for the other party or parties in or to such Action Cause or Suit when such Balls shall be delivered unto them all they shall declare and make known the same to the party or parties whoso do or shall deliver such Balls and