| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1823 - 756 pages
...in suits at common 1823. law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved. Any attempt to...right. So that the wager of law, if it ever had a legal existence in the United States, is now completely abolished. If, then, we apply the rule of the... | |
| George Shall Yerger, Tennessee. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 640 pages
...jury to try the facts above stated. Amd. Con. US Art. 7. "In suits at common law, where the matter in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate." It was important to ascertain whether the money had been paid to Nichol more than... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 536 pages
...actual state of this controversy. The 7th amendment to the constitution of the United States declares that " in suits at common law, where the value in...shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved." This is a suit at common law, and the value in controversy exceeds $20. The controversy... | |
| Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. 18. In snits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved ; and no fact so tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the Confederacy,... | |
| Conway Robinson - Actions and defenses - 1858 - 804 pages
...that in suits at common law, where the value in controversey shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved. Any attempt to...inconsistent with this acknowledged right. So that the waget of law, if it ever had a legal existence in the United States, is now completely abolished. If,... | |
| Illinois - Law - 1874 - 1270 pages
...wituesses iu his favor, aud to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. VII. In suits at common law, llinois be preserved ; and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 588 pages
...members of fis 32 the jury, is not in conflict with Article 7 of Amendments to the Constitution providing that in suits at common law, where the value in controversy...shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved. APPEAL from a judgment of the district court of the third district and from an order... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1118 pages
...entitled to a Jury trial under the Constitution, seventh amendment, providing that in suits at law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by Jury shall be preserved. Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the District... | |
| Chicago (Ill.) - Chicago (Ill.) - 1881 - 876 pages
...in his favor ; and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. VII. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20., the right of trial by jury shaft be preserved ; and no fact tried by a jury shall be othwise re-examined in any court of the United... | |
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