practice. An agreement made between the parties in a suit to require one of the twelve juror’s impaneled to try a cause to leave the jury box; the act of leaving the box by such a juror is also called the withdrawing a juror. 2. This arrangement usually takes place at the recommendation of the judge, when it is obviously improper the case should proceed any further. 3. The effect of withdrawing a juror puts an end to that particular trial, and each party must pay his own costs. 4. But the plaintiff may bring a new suit for the same cause of an action.
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