Posted by Eugene Volokh:
An Odd Sort of Age Restriction:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_25-2009_01_31.shtml#1233085719
An 1800 bill that would have mandated the random selection of federal
juries would have required that jurors be chosen by lot "by a child
not exceeding ten years of age." North Carolina law so provided as
late as 1902. This was also a practice under some wills, for instance,
That my lands be divided into six equal parts, as near as can be
done, by not less than three respectable freeholders, chosen by my
executor. After being so divided, the tracts or divisions to be
numbered and put into a box or hat and drawn out by a child not
exceeding ten years old ....
See The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States,
1789-1800 273 (Maeva Marcus ed., 1992); Moore v. Navassa Guano Co., 41
S.E. 293 (N.C. 1902); Evans v. Evans, 4 Rich. Eq. 334 (S.C. App. Eq.
1852).
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