Chapter LXXVI. to prevent in certain cases a failure or delay of Justice in the Courts of the District of Columbia
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Chap. LXXVI.— An Act to prevent in certain cases a failure or delay of Justice in the Courts of the District of Columbia. Feb. 16, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Where a case has been commenced before the jury, it may be proceeded with, notwithstanding the intervention of another term. That where, at any term of tire Circuit or Criminal Court of the District of Columbia, a jury shall be empannelled to try any cause or any issue or issues joined in any cause, and it shall happen that no verdict shall be found, nor tire jury otherwise discharged before the day appointed by law for the commencement of the next succeeding term, the Court shall and may, nevertheless, proceed with the trial by the same jury in every respect as if such term had not commenced; and all subsequent proceedings to final judgment, if such judgment shall be rendered, shall be entered and have legal effect and operation as of the term at which the jury shall have been empaunelled, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, February 16, 1853.