withdrawing a juror

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withdrawing a juror - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  WITHDRAWING A JUROR, practice. An agreement made between the parties in a 
  suit to require one of the twelve juror's impanelled to try a cause to leave 
  the jury box; the act of leaving the box by such a juror is also called the 
  withdrawing a juror. 
       2. This arrangement usually takes place at the recommendation of the 
  judge, when it is obviously improper the case should proceed any further. 
       3. The effect of withdrawing a juror puts an end to that particular 
  trial, and each party must pay his own costs. 3 T. R. 657; 2 Dowl. R. 721; 
  S. C. 1 Crom. M. & R. 64. 
       4. But the plaintiff may bring a new suit for the same cause of an 
  action. R. & M. 402; S. C. 21 E. C. L. R. 472; 3 Barn. & Adolph. 349; S. C. 
  23 E. C. L. R. 91. See 3 Chit. Pr. 916.