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Trial by Jury : the Seventh Amendment and Anglo-American Special Juries.
While the right to be judged by one's peers in a court of law appears to be a hallmark of American law, protected in civil cases by the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution, the civil jury is actually an import from England. Legal historian James Oldham assembles a mix of his signature essays...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Introduction; 1 The Scope of the Seventh Amendment Guarantee; 2 The "Complexity Exception"; 3 Law versus Fact; 4 Determining Damages: The Seventh Amendment, the Writ of Inquiry, and Punitive Awards; 5 The Jury of Matrons; 6 The Self-Informing Jury; 7 The English Origins of the Special Jury; 8 Special Juries in England: Nineteenth-Century Usage and Reform; 9 Special Juries in the United States and Modern Jury Formation Procedures; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Notes; Table of Statutes; Table of Cases; Index; About the Author.