By § 20. the sheriffs or other officers to whom the returning of juries doth or shall belong, for any county, city or place, shall not impanel or return any person or persons to serve on any jury for the trial of any capital offence, who at the time of such return would not be qualifyed in such county, city or place, to serve as jurors in civil causes for that purpose. [Made perpetual by _6 G. 2. c. 37._ § 1.] [Sidenote: Distress.] By _51 H. 3. st. 4._ (_De Districtione Scaccarii_) When a sheriff or other the Kings bailiff doth take the beasts of another for the Kings debt, or any other cause, they to whom the beasts belong may feed them without disturbance so long as they be impounded, without giving any thing for their keeping. And the beasts, nor no other distress taken for the Kings debt, nor for any other cause be given, nor sold within fifteen days after the taking. And if any bring the tally of a payment made in the exchequer the distress shall cease. And if he bring the tally of any sheriff or bailiff of payment made to him of the thing demanded, and will find pledges to be at the exchequer at the next account, to do what shall be right, then the distress shall cease. But no man of religion nor other shall be distrained by his beasts that gain his land nor by his sheep, for the Kings debt or the debt of another, nor for any other cause, by the Kings bailiff nor by any other man, but until they can find another distress or other chattels sufficient whereof they may levy the debt or that is sufficient for the demand, except impounding of beasts when a man finds them doing damage according to the law and usage of the land. And that the distresses be reasonable after the amount of the debt or demand according to reason and not outrageous. Howbeit all sheriffs and bailiffs who have received the Kings debts of the summons of the exchequer, and have not acquitted the debtors thereof at their next account, shall be punished according to the statutes lately made. [Sidenote: Replevin.] By _Stat. de Marleberge_ _52 H. 3. c. 21._[48] if the beasts of any man be taken and wrongfully withholden, the sheriff after complaint made to him thereof, may deliver them without let or gainsaying of him that took the said beasts, if they were taken out of liberties. And if they were taken within liberties and the bailiffs of the liberty will not deliver them, then the sheriff for default of those bailiffs shall cause them to be delivered.