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1824. March 8 + +
Constitutional Code
Ch.XV Quasi Jury
S.4 how treated
S.4 - treated how
Art.2 Quasi-Jurors, Ordinaries and Selects together,
are thus Created: the list compound list, compounded of both,
being, formed in for Articles hereinsofar unimpared, formed, the Select arebut
taken informed by selection made out of the compound list, much and of the
residue is compared the Ordinary list.
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Art.3 For exemplification, in each set a certain number
say 156 is here must be supposed mostly sufficient to provide for the whole of the service
called for at the hands of Quasi-Jurors , in the course of
the year. Deducting the 52 days of rest remain for the number of days
in which Quasi Jurors are unable to serve, 313 days: the number to be provided in and for each year, the number sufficient in the service of that same number of 313 days
the year. For this purpose Term of service for each person suppose
six days. the six working days in the week of seven days: number
of Jurors Quasi Jurorsin a set each serving for the six consecutiveworking
days, those of his week, 52 the number weeks in a year 52,
multiplied by 3 the number of Quasi Jurors serving in each week
gives 156: whereof to be Ordinaries, 104; Selects, 52.
Art.1. On this occasion as in every other the
end Art. 1. In the formation of this as of every other function
of the Judiciary establishment, leading principles are the
ends of justice; direct and maximization of rectitude of decision, otherwise or regularity
expressed, maximization of misdecision; namely to the prejudice
of the lengths the people members of the community at large in the character of eventual litigants
anomaly and in particular through partiality minimization (accordingly to their of one cause of misdecision
in particular: particularity: collateral end, minimization
of collateral evil in the classes of delay vexation and expences
more particularly on the part of the such of the people, on whom is imposed
the obligation of serving in the capacity of Quasi-Jurors.
Except in the exercise of the Appeal function
The Among all other services the elementary judicial functions being the imperative
the Judges and though that alone being <add>with the single exception <add>of the case of the appeal becoming </add> withholden from Quasi-Jurors, the danger of
misdecision through partiality in the part of the Quasi Jurors is
in proportion. lessened: thus it is, that in all other cases minimization of the collateral evil, remains as in another
and for the principal object of regard.