The Juries Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4. c. 50), also known as the County Juries Act 1825, was an act of the United Kingdom Parliament. It extends only to England and Wales.
The following requirements qualified an individual for jury service (section 1):
The requirement in the Bill of Rights 1689 that jurors in cases of high treason be freeholders was abolished.
In Wales the qualifications were scaled to three-fifths of the above values.
Various groups were exempted from jury service by section 2:
Service on a jury was restricted to natural born subjects of the Crown by section 3.
Section 31 listed qualification for service on special juries. They were required to be one of:
Section 47 reiterated that foreigners were entitled to have one-half of a jury judging them to consist of fellow foreigners. Those foreign jurors had to be available in the area where the trial was held, but were otherwise exempted from the qualifications required of jurors at the time (such as owing land).
Only section 29 remains in force. It requires challenges by the Crown to the composition of juries to only be made for cause.