A phrase used in the old laws of Connecticut.
1781. Formerly, when a Sober Dissenter had a suit in law against a churchman, every juryman of the latter persuasion was by the court removed from the jury, and replaced by Sober Dissenters.—Samuel Peters, ‘History of Connecticut,’ p. 297 (Lond.). (Italics in the original.) (See also pp. 317–8.)
