Show PROPOSED innovations lord campbell the lord chancellor of england has baa renewed his hitherto ineffectual eart effort to induce the british parliament to abolish that principle of the trial by jury which requires the inan amity of the jurors jurors parliament has already limited the application of trial by iury jury ury by enacting trl lately that in some cases the e decision of a judge or magistrate may supersede that of a jury on questions of pure fact the thelora lord lora chancellor would go much farther to advocate the passage of a law providing that if the jury in a civil action cannot agree after having deliberated a certain time the le verdict vy of a ce certain ertain number of them probably a majority may be taken as a verdict in the case it is not proposed to make such a change in criminal cases pases |