While much fundamental research in the recent past has  been devoted to the criminal jury in England to 1800, there has been  little work on the nineteenth century, and on the civil jury . This  important study fills these obvious gaps in the literature. It also  provides a re-assessment of standard issues such as jury lenity or  equity, while raising questions about orthodoxies concerning the  relationship of the jury to the development of laws of  evidence. Moreover, re-assessment of the jury in nineteenth-century  England these obvious gaps in the literature. It also provides a  re-assessment of standard issues such as jury lenity or equity, while  raising questions about orthodoxies concerning the relationship of the  jury to the development of laws of evidence. Moreover, re-assessment  of the jury in nineteenth-century England or equity, while raising  questions about orthodoxies concerning the relationship of the jury to  the development of laws of evidence. Moreover, re-assessment of the  jury in nineteenth-century England rejects the thesis that juries were  squeezed out by judges in favour of market principles. The book  contributes a rounded picture of the jury as an institution,  considering it in comparison to other modes of fact-finding, its  development in both civil and criminal cases, and the significance,  both practical and ideological, of its transplantation to North  America and Scotland, while opening up new areas of investigation and  research.

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