A writ commanding the sheriff to have the bodies of the jurors,or to distrain them by their lands and goods, that they may appear upon the dayappointed. 3 Bl. Comm. 354. It issues at the same time with the venire, though intheory afterwards, founded on the supposed neglect of the juror to attend. 3 Steph.Comm. 500.
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