enacted, that ^^ no person shall be admitted to pass
in any inquest upon the trial of the death of a man^*
(which words are best construed to mean, upon trials
if life and deaths that is, in capital cases,) ^< nor in
any inquest betwixt party and party in plea real, —
nor m plea personal, whereof the debt or damages
demanded amount to forty marks, — if such person
have not lands or tenements" (which words must be
understood to mean frank tenement or freehold)



* See Foster*s Cr. L. p. 7.
