Serving on Juries

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 5, 12 January 1884, Page 3

Serving on Juries

An exemption . from serving on a * '■■'■ coroner's jury has just been discovered by a Jewish tradeßoibn in l.ond<m He > neigter over the age of sixty, T ; nor does be hold any office that wonlri ' : ■,■ entitle him to refuse tn serve ;. hut h • ~ entertains a religious scruple. Id respect to tiie descendant:* ot Aaron, the Hijrh Priest,, the twmty-first ' chapter ot Leviticus says, v Neitber i^-gh«U Wei terint^) any house where ?»ffliere is » dead body." Claimttigr to ; ' W -direct descendaat of Aaron, Mr : Leww Dayid Cohen put forward hit '■ i^iMeipnnbuKobJAction, and declined t-«> •«rvp. For thi!< be was fined by tbc coroner, »«d subsequeutly the matter came by way ot Appeal hefore the City of London (}uar««r sessions It was stated that Mr Cohen'* olj.-ctibn ,wa> upheld by the i Chief Rabin :wbo on the ooeasion of the Ihanks-jiviriy: tor rhfAOOTerr <>i the ' rince of Waler> declined to attend tb<* Her vice in '-■ P»ul'i account of deati boilies bein^ interred there. After some consult* /' tiob the Court rVmitt««i the fine, and ' dijjfjOted that for the future Mr Cohen •hpnld be excused ir.>m serving- on •' ' i: flpronerV J urieß in tue Clt ¥- !t WM nptihowii in the evidence brouirbt ; lot*ard, i but it would have been '■.■;. iatereftinfF to learn, how Mr: Cohen traces hi« **direc: detceat ' lruu Auju.