How have juries been used in civil cases in common law since 1854?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Geophysical Service Inc. v. Sable Mary Seismic Inc., 2008 NSSC 79 (CanLII):
As Lord Denning noted in James v. Ward [1965] 1 All E.R. 563 (CA) at 568: “Up to the year 1854 all civil cases in the courts of common law were tried by juries. There was no other mode of trial available.”
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