LEADER 03560nam 22006015 450 001 9910479915803321 005 20210722004438.0 010 $a0-8147-6259-X 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814762592 035 $a(CKB)2670000000155544 035 $a(EBL)866187 035 $a(OCoLC)779828467 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000607799 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11386251 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607799 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10590324 035 $a(PQKB)10227750 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866187 035 $a(OCoLC)794701178 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10567 035 $a(DE-B1597)547330 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814762592 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000155544 100 $a20200723h20062006 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTrial by Jury $eThe Seventh Amendment and Anglo-American Special Juries /$fJames Oldham 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2006] 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (365 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-6204-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-312) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Scope of the Seventh Amendment Guarantee --$t2. The ?Complexity Exception? --$t3. Law versus Fact --$t4. Determining Damages --$t5. The Jury of Matrons --$t6. The Self-Informing Jury --$t7. The English Origins of the Special Jury --$t8. Special Juries in England --$t9. Special Juries in the United States and Modern Jury Formation Procedures --$tAppendix 1 --$tAppendix 2 --$tAppendix 3 --$tAppendix 4 --$tNotes --$tTable of Statutes --$tTable of Cases --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aWhile 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 and new work on the history of jury trial, tracing how trial by jury was transplanted to America and preserved in the Constitution. Trial by Jury begins with a rigorous examination of English civil jury practices in the late eighteenth century, including how judges determined one's right to trial by jury and who composed the jury. Oldham then considers the extensive historical use of a variety of ?special juries,? such as juries of merchants for commercial cases and juries of women for claims of pregnancy. Special juries were used for centuries in both English and American law, although they are now considered antithetical to the idea that American juries should be drawn from jury pools that reflect reasonable cross-sections of their communities. An introductory overview addresses the relevance of Anglo-American legal tradition and history in understanding America's modern jury system. 606 $aConstitutional law$zUnited States 606 $aJury$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aJury$zUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aConstitutional law 615 0$aJury$xHistory. 615 0$aJury$xHistory. 676 $a347.73/752 700 $aOldham$b James$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0730935 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910479915803321 996 $aTrial by Jury$92475680 997 $aUNINA