Sripetch v. SEC · ¶51

The Seventh Amendment provides that “the right of trial by jury shall be preserved” in “Suits at common law.” “By common law,” the Constitution means “suits in which legal rights” are adjudicated, “in contradistinction to those where equitable rights alone were recognized, and equitable remedies were administered.” Parsons v. Bedford, 3 Pet. 433, 447 (1830) (opinion for the Court by Story, J.).

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