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1 online resource (141 pages) |
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Medieval Animal Trials Justice for All; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Great Cat Massacre; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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In Europe as early as the thirteenth century and as late as the sixteenth century, non-human animals including rats, pigs, horses, and dogs were tried for criminal activities. Such trials were not sacrificial in nature; neither were they mock trials for entertainment. Rather, such trials were undertaken with great seriousness with appointed legal counsel for prosecution and defense, at some times before a judge and at other times before a judge and jury. This phenomenon would strike modern sensibilities are being somewhere between eccentric and completely mad, and no one today believes that an |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Trials -- Europe
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Animals, Prosecution and punishment of -- History
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Animals -- Law and legislation -- Europe -- History
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LAW -- Civil Procedure.
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LAW -- Legal Services.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
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Animals -- Law and legislation
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Animals, Prosecution and punishment of
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Trials
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Law - Non-U.S.
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Law, Politics & Government.
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Law - Europe, except U.K.
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Europe
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773418516 |
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0773418512 |
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