Code of Virginia - Title 8.01 Civil Remedies And Procedure - Chapter 11 Juries

8.01-336 Jury trial of right; waiver of jury trial; court-ordered jury trial; trial by jury of plea in equit...
A. The right of trial by jury as declared in Article I, Section 11 of the Constitution of Virginia and by statutes thereof shall be ...

8.01-337 Who liable to serve as jurors
All citizens over eighteen years of age who have been residents of the Commonwealth one year, and of the county, city or town in which ...

8.01-338 Who disqualified
The following persons shall be disqualified from serving as jurors: 1. Persons adjudicated incapacitated; 2. Persons convicted of treason or a felony; or 3. Any ...

8.01-339 No person eligible for whom request is made
No person shall be eligible to serve on any jury when he, or any person for him, solicits or requests a jury commissioner to place ...

8.01-340 No person to serve who has case at that term
No person shall be admitted to serve as a juror at a term of a court during which he has any matter of controversy which ...

8.01-341 Who are exempt from jury service
The following shall be exempt from serving on juries in civil and criminal cases: 1. The President and Vice President of the United States, 2. ...

8.01-341.1 Exemptions from jury service upon request
Any of the following persons may serve on juries in civil and criminal cases but shall be exempt from jury service upon his request: 1. ...

8.01-341.2 Deferral or limitation of jury service for particular occupational inconvenience
The court, on its own motion, may exempt any person from jury service for a particular term of court, or limit that person's service to ...

8.01-342 Restrictions on amount of jury service permitted
A. The jury commissioners shall not include on the jury list provided for in § 8.01-345 the name of any person who has been called ...

8.01-343 Appointment of jury commissioners
The judge of each circuit court in which juries are impaneled shall, prior to the first day of July in each year, appoint for the ...

8.01-344 Notification of jury commissioners; their oath
Such commissioners shall be immediately notified of their appointment by the clerk, and before entering upon the discharge of their duties shall take and subscribe ...

8.01-345 Lists of qualified persons to be prepared by jury commissioners; random selection process
The commissioners shall, not later than December 1 following their appointment, submit a list showing the names, addresses, freeholder status and, if available, the occupations ...

8.01-346 Lists to be delivered to clerk and safely kept by him; addition and removal of names
The list so prepared shall be delivered to the clerk of the court to be safely kept by him. The list shall include a notation ...

8.01-347 How names put in jury box
When such list is made out, the commissioners shall cause all the names thereon to be fairly written, each on a separate paper or ballot, ...

8.01-348 How names of jurors drawn from box
Prior to or during any term of court at which a jury may be necessary, the clerk or deputy clerk, in the presence of the ...

8.01-349 Notations on ballots drawn; return to box; when such ballots may be drawn again
If any ballot drawn from the box shall bear the name of a person known by the clerk or other person attending the drawing to ...

8.01-350 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1977, c. 451. ...

8.01-350.1 Selection of jurors by mechanical or electronic techniques for the term of court
Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 8.01-347 through 8.01-349, the chief judge may order that selection of the list of jurors necessary for the trial of ...

8.01-351 Preparation and disposition of list of jurors drawn
The clerk shall make and sign a list of the names on the ballots in alphabetical order showing the name, age, address, occupation and employer ...

8.01-352 Objections to irregularities in jury lists or for legal disability; effect thereof
A. Prior to the jury being sworn, the following objections may be made without leave of court: (i) an objection specifically pointing out the irregularity ...

8.01-353 Notice to jurors; making copy of jury panel available to counsel; objection to notice
A. The sheriff shall notify the jurors on the list, or such number of them as the judge may direct to appear in court on ...

8.01-354 "Writ of venire facias" defined
The term "writ of venire facias" for the purpose of this chapter shall be construed as referring to the list or lists of jurors made ...

8.01-355 Jurors on list to be used for trial of cases during term; discharge or dispensing with attendance o...
Jurors whose names appear in the list provided for under §§ 8.01-348 and 8.01-351 shall be used for the trial of cases, civil and criminal, ...

8.01-356 Failure of juror to appear
If any juror who has been given due notice to appear in court shall fail to do so without sufficient excuse, he shall be fined ...

8.01-357 Selection of jury panel
On the day on which jurors have been notified to appear, jurors not excused by the court shall be called in such manner as the ...

8.01-358 Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors
The court and counsel for either party shall have the right to examine under oath any person who is called as a juror therein and ...

8.01-359 Trial; numbers of jurors in civil cases; how jurors selected from panel
A. Five persons from a panel of not less than 11 shall constitute a jury in a civil case when the amount involved exclusive of ...

8.01-360 Additional jurors when trial likely to be protracted
Whenever in the opinion of the court the trial of any criminal or civil case is likely to be a protracted one, the court may ...

8.01-361 New juror may be sworn in place of one disabled; when court may discharge jury
If a juror, after he is sworn, be unable from any cause to perform his duty, the court may, in its discretion, cause another qualified ...

8.01-362 Special juries
Any court in a civil case in which a jury is required may allow a special jury, in which event the court shall order such ...

8.01-363 When impartial jury cannot be obtained locally
In any case in which qualified jurors who are not exempt from serving and who the judge is satisfied can render a fair and impartial ...