An Act to amend an Act of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her Majesty, for allowing Verdicts on Trials by Jury in Civil Causes in Scotland to be received, although the Jury may not be unanimous.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to allow Verdicts on Trials by Jury in Civil Causes in Scotland to be returned, although the Jury may not be unanimous, it was enacted, that if upon the Trial by Jury of any Civil Cause in the Court of Session in Scotland the Jury are unable to agree upon a Verdict, and if after having been kept in deliberation for a Period of Six Hours, Nine of the said Jury shall agree, the...