Trial by jury
Subtitle: the Seventh Amendment and Anglo-American special juries
By: James Oldham.
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780814762042
Subjects: United States.; Jury -- United States -- History.; Jury -- England -- History.; Constitutional law -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The scope of the Seventh Amendment guarantee; title: The complexity exception; title: Law versus fact; title: Determining damages : the Seventh Amendment, the writ of inquiry, and punitive awards; title: The jury of matrons; title: The self-informing jury; title: The English origins of the special jury; title: Special juries in England : nineteenth century usage and reform; title: Special juries in the United States and modern jury formation procedures.