Note 193 — FROM 1824 TO 1836 (continued 2)
Reading edition
Par. Pap. 1837.
6th Geo. iv. c. 5, disqualified a person to serve convicted of any capital offence, except free pardoned.
7th & 8th Geo. iv. c. 28. sec. 13, gave to a conditional pardon under the sign manual the same effect as great seal.
In cases not capital, service had the effect of free pardon: 9th Geo. iv. c. 32. sec. 3.
All the laws of England were adopted by the Act of 1828: thus the disqualification for jurors, in cases capital, was taken away.
Judge Forbes stated, that in civil issues the juries had some difficulty in comprehending the distinction between law and fact: ad questionem facti respondent juratores, ad questionem legis judices.