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In the case of the assize grandjury the study of the period before 1714 is as yet impossible, due to lack of sources.
However, land alone could not guarantee a man a grandjury seat.
These seem to have included grandjury membership.
Yet being a magistrate did not guarantee a man a place on a grandjury, nor were grand juries composed wholly of magistrates.
Ultimately, gaining a grandjury seat depended on being selected for service by the high sheriff.
The evidence also suggests that a man's religion and his politics played some part in defining his suitability for grandjury service.
Rather, service on the grandjury reached some way down the social scale, and could be undertaken by men from outside the established church.
Holding an important agency seems to have qualified a man for grandjury service from a much earlier date, however.
When this failed, he asked a grandjury for relief, but none was offered.
Several local officers, including clerks of the peace and gaolers, were appointed and paid by the grandjury.
Criminal prosecutions at the assizes almost invariably began by the submitting of bills of indictment, and supporting depositions, to the grandjury.
Yet certain consistent developmental strands in grandjury membership are discernable.
That is not to say that every land agent, any more than every large landowner, qualified for grandjury service.
The political stand taken by members of the grandjury in 1641 was not an isolated incident.
Only one third of the members of the 1641 grandjury can be shown to have served previously.
A succeeding grandjury declined to indict any members of the sheeted order.
A lack of religious conformity was not, therefore, an insurmountable barrier to grandjury service.
Only further work would reveal whether, after the failure of the 1641 petition, this also included an attempted remodelling of the grandjury.
As the indictments of the spring grandjury coughed and sputtered in actual trials, there was little left for which to hope.
The handful of arrests that had resulted did so only at the behest of an empanelled grandjury.
Yet for others, service on the county grandjury was clearly desirable.
As a result grandjury seats became, to some extent, hereditary.
An identification of the godly leaven at the heart of the grandjury suggests that a very different strand of confessional politics was in operation at the quarter sessions.
As a peer he was entitled to be tried by his fellow peers, but before this could happen he would have to be indicted by a grandjury of commoners.
The decline in the power of the grandjury at the quarter sessions that we have already noted was accompanied by a decline in the status of the jurors there.
While it is true that the grandjury only had a legal existence while the court was in session, its work was not strictly confined by these narrow time limits.
The former consist only of the names of prosecutors and defendants in criminal cases, along with the alleged crime and the verdict of the grandjury.
On the other hand, there are cases where the grandjury system has been used, not to protect prisoners rightly, but to protect them wrongly.
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But we are dealing with modern conditions, and under those conditions what is the function that is discharged by the grandjury?
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Why should we be asked to consent to the abolition of the grandjury?
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There is no grandjury, there is no indictment, there is no consideration before a petty jury and there is no direction of a jury.
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In effect, it could be in the position of a grandjury.
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The grandjury arose out of those practices.
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What harm would be done if the grandjury were to go?
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In connection with that there is a provision for dispensing with the grandjury in certain cases.
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In a case where a prisoner has pleaded guilty the grandjury may consider the matter.
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I regard the grandjury as in many cases a very proper protection for the persons charged.
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I prefer to see the abolition of the grandjury system; and there is this to be said in support of it.
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It is at quarter sessions that the burden of the grandjury is most felt and its practical utility most remote.
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In 1931 some 22,272 persons received summonses to attend the grandjury.
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Some progress was being made, but much has now been dissipated as a result of the grandjury investigation and later developments.
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The two judges, when the jury ignored the bill, insisted on the grandjury going out, and having witnesses examined before them.
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The grandjury system has been threatened for certainly seventy years.
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It an-not be said that the need for the grandjury has passed away.
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The arguments in favour of the grandjury are substantial, are historic and based on experience.
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Against that the grandjury is and always has been a very good corrective.
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The charge to the grandjury was naturally made before the evidence was heard by the petty jury.
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They appreciate this informed examination of the year's results by grandjury.
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Out of that developed the grandjury and, later, jury trials.
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There are not wanting many people who think that the grandjury was one of them.
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He has unrivalled experience, and what he said about the grandjury was the best testimony we can get on this subject.
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That being so, an investigation, generally of a somewhat summary and cursory character, by the grandjury at quarter sessions is really no longer required.
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If the grandjury system involves a waste of public time, and a useless waste of public time, it should be brought to an end.
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It is proposed also to abolish the grandjury at quarter sessions—not at assizes.
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The grandjury is a very ancient institution.
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Clause 2 merely provides the procedure which is necessary in order to take the place of the grandjury.
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In such a case the grandjury might be a real constitutional safeguard.
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We could have a grandjury for the purpose.
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He is far too wise a man, if he has any knowledge of the grandjury system, to rely on such an argument as that.
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Now that the investigation before the magistrates is so full and careful, the functions of the grandjury are unnecessary.
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Formerly there were no investigations before magistrates at all, and then the grandjury system served a useful purpose.
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I do not think that the grandjury is any protection to a prisoner.
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Those are two reasons showing the great inconvenience of the present practice of having a grandjury at all.
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We already have a kind of grandjury which investigates and adjudicates on many things.
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Not only so, but proceedings before the grandjury are in nine cases out of ten of a thoroughly perfunctory order.
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Then a few words from the point of view of those summoned as a grandjury to the assizes.
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I speak as one believing in the grandjury.
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Is an intermediate inquiry by the grandjury really necessary?
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The jury proposals are confined to the grandjury in criminal cases and the common or special jury in civil cases.
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That has nothing to do with the grandjury.
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One almost wonders that such a case should pass the grandjury.
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That may be, conceivably, an argument for democratising the grandjury, but it is no argument for abolishing grand juries.
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What is the argument for the abolition of the grandjury?
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There is a further reason for retaining a grandjury in some form.
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The abolition of the grandjury system in the case of quarter sessions is admirable.
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I need not go into the historic instances in which the grandjury has intervened, because they will be present to everyone's mind.
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They must find the prisoner guilty, and therefore it is useless to talk to the grandjury about what magistrates may have done.
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It has been argued that the safety of the subject is protected by the grandjury.
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If there could be some grandjury type of weeding out procedure, it might save time and, therefore, be more fair and just to those waiting in the queue.
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It would only be in a case where he thought there was no true bill that he would take the decision upon himself, being, as it were, the grandjury.
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The grandjury has gone.
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The grandjury has long been abolished.
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The whole idea of the grandjury is that people in the counties and in the boroughs should take a personal interest in the administration of justice in their districts.
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He wished to abolish the grandjury.
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A man's chance of avoiding standing his trial when he has been wrongfully committed will be entirely destroyed if the machinery of the grandjury is removed.
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The other prisoner who had not the benefit of the grandjury because he was committed to quarter sessions would not only be tried but might be convicted.
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The grandjury ignored the bill.
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The grandjury threw out the bill.
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We therefore beg to suggest that the calling of a grandjury for quarter sessions be discontinued and ask that this our presentment be forwarded to the proper quarter.
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I was a little sentimental about the abolition of the grandjury, which was an infernal nuisance but the powers of presentation of the grand jury were important constitutional powers.
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That publicity may have damaged his reputation but nothing like the same publicity is given to the fact that the grandjury has thrown out the bill.
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So much for the grandjury.
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This transaction later went on to be the focus of a grandjury inquiry.
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The grandjury served to screen out incompetent or malicious prosecutions.
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A grandjury is traditionally larger than and distinguishable from the petit jury used during a trial, usually with 12 jurors.
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The most recent version allows material witnesses to be held to ensure the giving of their testimony in criminal proceedings or to a grandjury.
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The paper also discovered that a federal grandjury was already investigating the stock transactions.
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He served as chairman of a politically stacked grandjury impaneled to investigate voter fraud in the election of 1868.
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Grandjury revelations of widespread corruption on the common council heightened such concerns.
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