The Juries Act 1870
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the laws regulating the qualification, summoning, attendance, and remuneration of special and common juries in England and Wales, and otherwise to amend the laws as to trials by jury in England and Wales: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: