Treason Act, 1708

Qualification of jurymen.

Challenge.

9. Provided . . . also that every person may be summoned and returned to be a juryman in any such tryals as aforesaid who shall at the time of such trial have and be seized in his own right or in the right of his wife of lands or tenements of an estate of inheritance or for his or her life or the life of some other person within the county stewartry or place where any such tryal shall be or from whence the jury is to come of the yearly value of forty shillings sterling at least and for want thereof or for any other lawful cause shall be subject to be challenged and set aside.