 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1884 - 1012 pages
...dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved. In the constitution of Virginia it is provided, that in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the trial by jury is preferable to any other and ought to be held sacred. The laws of this state have been... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1884 - 1242 pages
...described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted. 13. That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, tie trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred. 14. That the freedom of... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Albert J. Brunner - 1884 - 772 pages
...controversies at law respecting property the ancient mode of trial by jury is one of the best securities of the rights of the people, and ought to remain sacred and inviolable." The expression here is rather indefinite, but at the utmost it can only mean that in all cases where... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - 1885 - 940 pages
...June 12, 1776, passed our bill of rights by which the same principle was reaffirmed in these words : " That in controversies respecting property, and in...between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred." This provision was adopted without alteration... | |
 | Howard Willis Preston - 1886 - 344 pages
...particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted. XI. That in controversies respecting property, and...suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury of twelve men is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred. XII. That the freedom of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1432 pages
...thereof, and to remove the same if unlawful; and that such remedy ought not to be denied or delayed. " XL That in controversies respecting property, and in...suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury, as hath been exercised by us and our ancestors, from the lime whereof the memory of man is not to the... | |
 | 1897 - 1164 pages
...trial tc correct the mistakes of the former verdict" Our constitution of 1776 (chapter 11) provided "that In controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the parties have a right to trial by jury -which ought to be held sacred." There was no attempt to define... | |
 | 1886 - 804 pages
...controversies at law respecting property, the ancient mode of trial by jury is one of the best securities of the rights of the people, and ought to remain sacred and inviolable." It is alleged that at the time this declaration of rights was made, a justice of the peace had jurisdiction... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1888 - 884 pages
...constitution of the several States, which provide for the preservation of liberty in matters of religion. 2. That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, trial by jury shall remain as heretofore, as well in the federal courts as in those of the several... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1889 - 1428 pages
...court of law, the parties have a right to trial by jury, which ought to be held sacred.5 Virginia. — That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.6 West Virginia. — In suits... | |
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That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred. 
