Seventh Amendment

Seventh Amendment
An amendment to the United States Constitution, contained in the Bill of Rights, preserving the right of trial by jury in suits at common law where the value in controversy exceeds $20, and providing further that no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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