good and lawful men

good and lawful men
As the expression appears in the caption of an indictment:-freeholders. 27 Am J1st Indict § 36. As applied to the members of a grand jury:-including every statutory, as well as every common-law, qualification required of them. Jerry v State (Ind) 1 Blackf 395, 396.

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