what is the seventh amendment

what is the seventh amendment

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The Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights and was ratified on December 15, 1791. It codifies the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases and inhibits courts from overturning a jurys findings of fact. The amendment states that in suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise. The term "common law" in the amendment refers to the law and procedure of the courts that used juries, as opposed to Equity and other courts that did not use juries. The Seventh Amendments provision for jury trials in civil cases has never been incorporated (applied to the states), but almost every state has a provision for jury trials in civil cases in its constitution. The prohibition of overturning a jurys findings of fact applies to federal cases, state cases involving federal law, and to review of state cases by federal courts.

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