Pennsylvania Act 1857-592 — INQUESTS BY CORONERS AND JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

Act text

AN ACT

Relative to Inquests by Coroners and Justices of the Peace.

Section 1. Number of coroners' jurors

From and after the passage of this act, the number of jurors summoned by coroners and justices of the peace in cases of inquests upon the bodies of deceased persons, as now required to be held by law, shall not be more than six to attend any one inquest. 1857, May 16, P.L. 536, Sec. 1.

Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.