City Courts often have jurisdiction over civil causes to which one residing in the city is a party, or growing out of a transaction occurring within the city, irrespective of the amount of the matter in demand.
In several States verdicts in civil causes by a three-fourths vote are permitted.
The number of civil causes tried to the jury, taking the country as a whole, is declining.
The requirement of unanimity on the part of the jury in civil causes, which we have inherited from England, is indefensible in principle.
The proposed plan expressly adopts it, for the decision of all criminal accusations, except impeachment; and is silent with respect to the determination of facts in civil causes.
With regard to civil causes, subtleties almost too contemptible for refutation have been employed to countenance the surmise that a thing which is only not provided for, is entirely abolished.
I am so entirely convinced that the jury is pre-eminently a political institution, that I still consider it in this light when it is applied in civil causes.
The freeholders, who were thus required always to attendthe courts, were doubtless the only witnesses who were usually required in civil causes.
They where consequently judges in civil causes, determined before the manorial tribunal.
The third kind is altogether foreign to civil causes, and is uttered or written for the sake of entertainment, combined with its giving practice, which is not altogether useless.
The wealthy individual, on the contrary, always escapes imprisonment in civil causes; nay, more, he may readily elude the punishment which awaits him for a delinquency by breaking his bail.
I am so entirely convinced that the jury is pre-eminently a political institution that I still consider it in this light when it is applied in civil causes.
The thing was so serious that it brought Cino to his feet, severe, formal, an Assessor of Civil Causes.
The fire set blazing by those lit green swords of hers was in the heart of an Assessor of Civil Causes, a brazier with only too good a draught.
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