Earle v. Vanburen

By the act of assembly of March 15, 1798, (Pat. 317; Griffith’s Treatise, 2nd edition, 111) constituting the courts for the trial of small causes, tribunals are erected, differing in some essential respects, both in their their organization and form of proceedings, from the ordinary courts of common law. By the 22d section of this act, the justice is directed to administer an oath to the jurors summoned before him, the form of which is prescribed, differing in no essential matter from the form of oath' usually taken by jurors in other courts. The only variance is, that the former is stated to…