Editing Jury (section)

===19th century===
In 1825, the rules concerning juror selection in England were consolidated. Property qualifications and various other rules were standardised, although an exemption was left open for towns which "possessed" their own courts.<ref name="Juries Act 1825, s50">{{cite web |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1825/50/pdfs/ukpga_18250050_en.pdf|title=An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws' relative to Jurors and Juries.|date=June 22, 1825}}</ref> This reflected a more general understanding that local officials retained a large amount of discretion regarding which people they actually summoned. In the late eighteenth century, King has found evidence of butchers being excluded from service in Essex;<ref>{{cite journal |last1=King |first1=PJR |title='Illiterate Plebeians, Easily Misled': jury composition, experience, and behaviour in Essex, 1735-1815 |journal=Cockburn and Green (Eds), Twelve Good Men and True: The Criminal Trial Jury in England, 1200-1800 (Princeton UP 1988)}}</ref> while Crosby has found evidence of "peripatetic ice cream vendors" not being summoned in the summer time as late as 1923.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Crosby |first1=K |title=Restricting the Juror Franchise in 1920s England and Wales |journal=Law and History Review |date=2019 |volume=37 |issue=1 |page=176 |doi=10.1017/S0738248018000639|s2cid=150306872 |url=https://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/fulltext.aspx?url=247766/84A91BAF-7996-4285-921C-85219429B434.pdf&pub_id=247766 }}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable - 3 citations and only an impact score of .7 ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=May 2024}}

With the adoption of the Juries Act (Ireland) 1871, property qualifications for Irish jurors were partially standardized and lowered, so that jurors were drawn from among men who paid above a certain amount of taxes for [[poor relief]].<ref name=":1" />{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable with only 6 citations published in a journal with an impact score of .7 ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=May 2024}} This expanded the number of potential jurors, even though only a small minority of Irish people were eligible to serve.<ref name=":1" />

Until the 1870s, jurors in England and Ireland worked under the rule that they could not leave, eat, drink, or have a fire to warm themselves by, though they could take medicine.<ref name=":1" /> This rule appears to have been imposed with the idea that hungry jurors would be quicker to compromise, so they could reach a verdict and therefore eat.<ref name=":1" /> Jurors who broke the rule by smuggling in food were sometimes fined, and occasionally, especially if the food were believed to come from one of the parties in the case, the verdict was quashed.<ref name=":1" /> Later in the century, jurors who did not reach a verdict on the first day were no longer required to sleep in the courthouse, but were sometimes put up, at the expense of the parties in the trial, at a hotel.<ref name=":1" />