Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, Volume 36 |
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And it is this very course of steady and constant development in our states , as well as in England that has brought us to the present condition of affairs , when though developed under similar constitutional provisions trial by jury in ...
And it is this very course of steady and constant development in our states , as well as in England that has brought us to the present condition of affairs , when though developed under similar constitutional provisions trial by jury in ...
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While at common law no judge could compel a jury to bring in a special verdict , in many of the states today the court may compel the jury to do so . This practice , and the practice of compelling the jury to make special findings of ...
While at common law no judge could compel a jury to bring in a special verdict , in many of the states today the court may compel the jury to do so . This practice , and the practice of compelling the jury to make special findings of ...
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Since the judge had this power at common law , he is not deprived of it merely because the right to trial by jury is guaranteed by the constitution . But in many of the states this power has been expressly taken away .
Since the judge had this power at common law , he is not deprived of it merely because the right to trial by jury is guaranteed by the constitution . But in many of the states this power has been expressly taken away .
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