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Elisors, electors. In case of challenge to the sheriff and coroners for partiality, etc., the jury process was directed to two clerks of the Court, or two persons of the county named by the Court, and sworn. Then these elisors indifferently name or choose the jury, and their return is final, no challenge being allowed to the array, Co. Litt. 158 a.

A person appointed by a court to assemble a jury, serve a writ perform other duties of sheriff or coroner if either is disqualified, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 538.