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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....
elisor
elisor [Anglo-French ellisour eslisour, literally, one who selects (jurors in the sheriff's stead), elector, from eslire to select, from Old French, ultimately from Latin eligere to choose, elect] : a judicial officer appointed to act in the stead of a sheriff when the sheriff and any other authorized official (as a coroner) are unable or unqualified to act ...
Elisor
An elector or chooser one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified...
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