Section 44 In civil causes juries to consist of eight common and four special jurors.C1

In all civil causes appointed to be tried by jury the jurors for the trial of any cause shall be chosen in open court by ballot from the list of persons summoned; and for that purpose the clerk of court shall cause the name and designation of each juror to be written on a separate piece of paper or parchment, all the pieces being of the same size, and shall cause the pieces to be rolled up as nearly as may be in the same shape, F1and to be put into a box or glass and mixed and the clerk shall draw out the said pieces of paper or parchment one by one from the box or glass; and if any of the persons whose names shall be so drawn shall not appear, or shall be challenged with or without cause assigned, and be set aside, then such further number shall be drawn until the number required for the trial shall be made out; and the persons so drawn and appearing, and being sworn, shall be the jury to try the cause, and their names shall be taken down and recorded, according to the present law and practice, but providing that when challenges are made, and jurors set aside, their places shall be filled up with other names, by drawing by ballot as aforesaid from the box or glass . . . F2