Chapter 54 - Juries
- 54.010 Trial jury defined.
A trial jury is a body of persons, six in number in the justice courts, sworn to try and determine a question of fact and...
- 54.020 Jury not selected from jury list.
When a jury has been demanded by a party to an action in the justice court, and neither party requires that the jury be drawn...
- 54.030 Service and return of order; persons to be summoned.
The officer serving the order for a jury must do so impartially by selecting only such persons as the officer knows, or has good reason...
- 54.040 Insufficient number of jurors; summoning others; challenges.
If a sufficient number of jurors does not appear at the time and place required, or if any of those appearing are peremptorily challenged, or...
- 54.050 Qualifications of jurors.
A person competent to act as a juror in a justice court, in addition to the qualifications prescribed in ORS 10.030, must be an inhabitant...
- 54.060 Making of jury lists.
(1) The justice of the peace in each district shall, in January of each year, or in case of an omission or neglect so to...
- 54.070 Number of names on list; certifying and filing list.
The jury list shall: (1) Contain the names of at least 50 persons, if there are that number of persons in the district who are...
- 54.080 [Repealed by 1983 c.673 §26]
- 54.090 Justice not in office or present when list was made must procure and file copy thereof.
A justice of the peace not in office or attendance when a jury list is made must procure, and file in the office of the...
- 54.100 Drawing jury list; jury box; depositing ballots.
Unless juries are drawn and selected from the jury list of the district by means of electronic equipment, the justice of the peace shall keep...
- 54.110 Selection of jury from jury list.
When a jury is demanded in a justice court, instead of being selected by the officers, as provided in ORS 54.020 to 54.040, the jury...
- 54.120 Manner of drawing jury panel; making and signing list of names for panel.
When a jury is to be selected from the jury list of the district, the justice shall draw from the box in the presence of...
- 54.130 Names drawn which are not entered on list of panel.
If it appears to the justice that a person whose name is drawn is dead or resides out of the district, the ballot must be...
- 54.140 Selection of jury by striking names from the panel.
When the drawing is completed, from the 12 names drawn the parties must select a jury by each striking from the list three names, alternately,...
- 54.150 Order for jury selected from jury list; manner of summoning and forming jury; challenges.
The names of the six jurors so selected must be inserted in the order to summon a jury, and thereafter the proceedings in the summoning...
- 54.160 Punishment of jurors.
A person duly summoned to attend a justice court as a juror may be punished by the justice of the peace as provided for contempt...
