The Seventh Amendment applies to civil court proceedings.
At the moment it was ratified in 1791, this amendment intended to establish which civil claims must be tried before a jury and those that must be tried by a judge alone. According to the law, only when the lawsuit exceed $20 (which was a lot of money back then), a person has the right of trial by jury. Besides, the facts tried by a jury should not be reexamined in any other court of the nation, according to the rules of the common law (the laws that arose as precedents from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals).
