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This database is made up of the reports of: Murray's Jury Court Cases (Murray) Vols 1- 5 : 1815 - 1830

"Trial of civil causes' by jury was re-introduced, after long agitation and against considerable opposition, in 1815. At that period there were large arrears in appeals from the Court of Session to the House of Lords. Many issues which are now finally decided by jury were then taken on appeal to the highest court in the realm, and some of these cases, being purely questions of fact, were a cause of great difficulty in the House of Lords. As a result, Lord Eldon, in 1815, introduced a bill, which became a law, establishing a Jury Court separate from the other courts for the sole purpose of trying questions of fact remitted to it from the other courts. This jury system was of the English type. In 1830 the separate jury court was abolished and jury trial was incorporated with the ordinary jurisdiction of the Court of Session."^*