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Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution

Amendment VII (the Seventh Amendment) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, states:

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 re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

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