| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 243 pages) |
| Contents |
Dearest birth right of the people of England: the civil jury in modern Scottish legal history / John W. Cairns -- Towards the jury in medieval Wales / Dafydd Jenkins -- Petit larceny, jury lenity and parliament / Roger D. Groot -- The jury in English manorial courts / Maureen Mulholland -- Jurors, evidences and the tempest of 1499 / David J. Seipp -- No link: the jury and the origins of the confrontation right and the hearsay rule / Richard D. Friedman -- A quest of thoughts: representation and moral agency in the early Anglo-American jury / J.R. Pole -- Jury research in the English reports in cd-rom / James Oldham -- The limits of discretion: forgery and the jury at the Old Bailey, 1818-21 / Philip Handler -- The strange life of the English civil jury, 1837-1914 / Michael Lobban -- The fate of the civil jury in late Victorian England: malicious prosecution as a test case / Joshua Getzler |
| Summary |
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 rejects the thesis that juries were squeezed out by judges in favour of market |
| Notes |
"This book ... arose out the Fourteenth British Legal History Conference ... held in Edinburgh in July 1999"--Preface |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jury -- England -- History -- Congresses
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Common law -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
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Jury -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
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LAW -- Legal Services.
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LAW -- Civil Procedure.
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Juryrechtspraak.
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Common law.
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Common law.
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Jury.
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Rechtsgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
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England.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Congressen (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cairns, John W.
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McLeod, Grant.
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British Legal History Conference (14th : 1999 : Edinburgh, Scotland)
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| ISBN |
9781847313263 |
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1847313264 |
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9781472559241 |
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147255924X |
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