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Jury to be summoned in case of refusal to sell, &c.
Jurymen may be challenged, but not the array.
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25. If any body or bodies politic or corporate, or other person or persons having or claiming to have any estate, title, term, or interest in or to such lands, grounds, houses, tenements, edifices, erections, or buildings as aforesaid, or any charge, lien, or incumbrance thereon, shall refuse to agree or shall not agree with the said grand juries respectively, for the sale and conveyance of their respective rights, terms, and interests therein, or shall not produce or evince a clear title to such estate, rights, titles, terms, or interests as they shall or may so claim, or if the said grand juries respectively shall be ignorant who are entitled to the same, then and in every or any such case it shall and may be lawful to and for the said commissioners, and they are hereby empowered and authorized, from time to time to issue a warrant or warrants, precept or precepts, to the sheriff of the county, or county of a city or county of a town, wherein the lands, grounds, tenements, or hereditaments so to be purchased respectively shall be situate, or to such other proper sheriff as herein-after is provided; and such sheriff is hereby authorized, directed, and required accordingly to empannel, summon, and return a competent number of substantial persons qualified to serve on juries, not less than sixty nor more than eighty, out of which persons so to be impannelled, summoned, or returned, a jury of twelve persons shall be drawn by some person to be by the said commissioners appointed, in such manner as juries for the trials of issues joined in His Majesty’s Four Courts at Dublin are or shall then be by law directed to be drawn in Ireland; which persons so to be impannelled, summoned, and returned as aforesaid, are hereby required to come and appear before the said commissioners at such time and place as in such warrant or warrants or precept or precepts shall be directed and appointed (such time not being less than seven days nor more than fourteen days after such warrant or warrants or precept or precepts shall be served upon such persons), and to attend the said commissioners till discharged by them; and all persons concerned shall and may have their lawful challenges against any of the said jurymen, but shall not be at liberty to challenge the array: Provided always, that fourteen days notice at the least, in writing under the hands of the said commissioners, of the time and place of any such jury so being impannelled, summoned, and returned, shall be and is hereby required to be inserted in the “Dublin Gazette,” and also to be given to the owners, proprietors, occupiers, corporations, trustees, or any other person or persons interested in any such land, ground, houses, tenements, edifices, erections, or buildings, or to be left at the respective dwelling-houses or places of abode of such person or persons, or of the proper officer or officers of such corporations, at the house or houses of the tenant or tenants in possession of land, ground, houses, tenements, edifices, erections, or buildings.
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