Congress has, by statute, provided for the trial of issues of fact incivil cases by the court without the intervention of a jury, only when the parties waive their right to a jury by a stipulation in writing.
The burden of proof incivil cases is usually on the plaintiff, and his attorney generally has the privilege of closing the argument.
What is the extent of their jurisdiction in civil cases?
The procedure of examining and cross-examining the witnesses is substantially the same as in the trial of civil cases.
It is believed that the learned author, although a distinguished advocate in France, never thoroughly comprehended the grand divisions of our complicated system of law, in civil cases.
If it entered into my present purpose to inquire how far trial by jury (more especially in civil cases) contributes to ensure the best administration of justice, I admit that its utility might be contested.
When any official or familiar, in criminal or civil cases not of faith, has consented tacitly or explicitly to the secular jurisdiction or has pleaded clergy, the inquisitors shall not protect him nor inhibit the secular judges.
Servants and families of salaried officials are only to have the passive fuero in civil cases, like familiars.
Outside of the city the local magistrates are to have cognizance of civil cases of familiars involving less than twelve libras.
Civil cases remained in a somewhat undetermined state, especially concerning familiars, the inquisitors endeavoring to grasp as far as they could both the active and passive fuero.
M^r Pinkney & M^r Gerry moved to annex to the end, "And a trial by jury shall be preserved as usual in civil cases.
He thought it not sufficiently clear that the prohibition meant by this phrase was limited to cases of a criminal nature, and no Legislature ever did or can altogether avoid them in Civil cases.
The jury, and more especially the jury in civil cases, serves to communicate the spirit of the judges to the minds of all the citizens; and this spirit, with the habits which attend it, is the soundest preparation for free institutions.
If it entered into my present purpose to inquire how far trial by jury (more especially in civil cases) contributes to insure the best administration of justice, I admit that its utility might be contested.
In substance, it establishes the mode of proceeding in civil cases which is known in the United States as code pleading.
The District Court has jurisdiction also over bankruptcy and admiralty matters, a few other kinds of civil cases of minor importance, and of all offenses against the United States.
But I must acknowledge that I cannot readily discern the inseparable connection between the existence of liberty, and the trial by jury in civil cases.
The excellence of the trial by jury in civil cases appears to depend on circumstances foreign to the preservation of liberty.
This tribunal takes cognizance of all kinds of civil cases.
The county courts exist for the adjudication of civil cases exclusively.
The English party considered themselves injured because the trial by jury, in civil cases, had been taken away.
In addition the commissioner could hear the civil cases of familiars, up to the value of twenty libras and execute his decisions.
In civil cases, however, the tribunals could grant licences to print.
Unless the crime is murder, the accused may be released upon bail until trial, which proceeds as in civil cases.
That, in civil cases, possession is presumptive proof of property; or, in other words, every man is presumed to be the rightful proprietor of whatever he has in his possession.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civil cases" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
