Here again is the right to a jury trial, and the benefit of a jury trial, and to a trial according to the established rules and precedents of the common law courts carefully preserved.
Have you also observed that the constitutional protection of your liberty not only provides for a jury trial, but also provides that it shall be a "speedy" trial.
A further requisite is "that there shall be a unanimous verdict of the twelve jurors in all federal courts where a jury trial is held.
But the requirement of a jury trial is not jurisdictional; it is a privilege which the defendant may waive with the consent of the Government and the approval of the court.
Proceedings for contempt of court[92] or to disbar an attorney[93] may be determined by a court without a jury trial.
But a charge of driving an automobile recklessly, so as to endanger life and property, is a "grave offense" for which a jury trial is requisite.
Considerations Concerning a Proposal for Dividing the Court of Session into Classes or Chambers, and for Limiting Litigation in Small Causes, and for the Revival of Jury Trial in certain Civil Actions,” 1789.
Had John Brown’s conviction proceeded upon a jury trial in Scotland, I would have been of a different opinion.
No officer of the king was allowed to preside at a jury trial; but only magistrates chosen by the people.
The reason for this provision undoubtedly was, that the corruption and subserviency of the king's judges were so well known, that the people would not even trust them to sit alone in a jury trial of any considerable importance.
Jury trial in civil cases was at one time in general if not prevailing use, but was gradually superseded for most purposes on the institution of the Court of Session (1 Mackay, Ct.
Jury trial in civil cases in Scotland has not flourished or given general satisfaction, and is resorted to only in a small proportion of cases.
The result of these investigations is a fairly general agreement that the germ of jury trial is to be found in the Frankish inquest (recognitio or inquisitio) transplanted into England by the Norman kings.
To-day we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers.
To deprive Miss Anthony of the benefit of jury trial seemed, however, in unison with every step taken in the cases of women under the XIV.
The sixth and seventh denounce the bills of Senators Frelinghuysen and Logan, the former being designed to deprive the women of the Territories of jury trial, and the latter to restore the common law in the Territories.
The phrase common law, found in this clause [the clause guaranteeing a jury trial], is used in contradistinction to equity and admiralty and maritime jurisdiction.
The claim of a jury trial is entirely new; never thought of till modern discussions of the subject begun.
On appeal, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the lower court and declared that imprisonment for contempt of court did not violate the principle of jury trial.
Not until the enactment of this measure were the constitutional guarantees of jury trial, publicity of judicial proceedings, and the independence of the judiciary put effectively in force.
Jury trial is guaranteed by the constitution in all criminal cases and in all cases involving political or press offenses.
It has been maintained by whatever States yet tolerate it for two reasons: because the lawyers and the community are used to it, and because it furnishes a convenient test of any claim of right to a jury trial.
Over a million cases are brought every year in the English county courts, and in not one in a thousand of them is there a jury trial, although if the matter in demand is over £5 in value either party may claim it.
The right to a jury trial is in civil actions often waived by both parties, in which case the facts as well as the law are determined by the judge.
The only tidings I ever got from this letter, was a sight of it in one of the Chicago papers, following a long and minute report of my jury trial at Kankakee.
She has always asked and earnestly pleaded for a jury trial of her case, but her relentless persecutor has ever turned a deaf ear to her entreaties, and flagrantly violated all the dictates of justice and humanity.
But in the overruling providence of a just God, her case has been ventilated, at last, by a jury trial, the account of which is already before the public.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jury trial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
