 | William Otis Badger - Courts - 1919 - 808 pages
...statute violates the Seventh Article of Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, declaring that, in suits at common law, where the value in controversy...shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved. Opinion. [1] i. We have heretofore considered, and have reconsidered the question several... | |
 | John Carter Rose - Civil procedure - 1922 - 812 pages
...Right of Trial by Jury Must Be Held Inviolate in What Were Cases at Common Law. That amendment declares that in suits at common law where the value in controversy...shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved. In the Federal Court this right may, it is true, be waived by the parties entitled to... | |
 | North Dakota. Supreme Court, Hiram A. Libby, Robert Milligan Carothers, Robert Dimon Hoskins, Edgar Whittlesey Camp, John McDowell Cochrane, Ames Francis Wilbur, Joseph Coghlan, Edwin James Taylor - Court rules - 1922 - 716 pages
...Constitution. The 7th Amendment to the Federal Constitution is as follows : "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United... | |
 | Randolph Leigh - Constitutional history - 1923 - 342 pages
...favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. ARTICLE VII. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United... | |
 | Bar associations - 1925 - 336 pages
...of the Constitution. The Seventh Amendment to the Constitution provides : "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved * * *." It is to be noted that there is a difference between the language of the Seventh... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1054 pages
...the federal courts. The seventh amendment to the constitution guaranties, in all legal controversies where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury. That provision would be defeated if a strictly legal question could be tried by a court of equity.... | |
 | Oregon, Oregon. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1926 - 554 pages
...jurisdiction in mandamus, quo warranto and habeas corpus proceedings. Section 3. In actions at law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of this state,... | |
 | Law - 1893 - 544 pages
...conflict wi'h the seventh amendment to the federal constitution, providing that in suite at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved. The following is from the opinion of the court : It is apparent that the sole question... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1928 - 178 pages
...PRESERVED IF THE VALUE IN CONTROVERSY SHALL EXCEED $20 Amendment 7, reads: "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved * * *." All three of the propositions advanced above have already been decided by the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1928 - 900 pages
...PRESERVED IF THE VALUE IN CONTROVERSY SHALL EXCEED $20 Amendment 7, reads: "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved * * *." All three of the propositions advanced above have already been decided by the... | |
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In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed $20, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common... 
