"The dearest birth right of the people of England" : the jury in the history of the common law / edited by John W Cairns and Grant McLeod.

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Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2002.

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22631

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British Legal History Conference ; 14th.

Subject:

Jury -- England -- History -- Congresses.

Common law -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.

Contents:

1. The dearest birthright of the people of England : the civil jury in modern Scottish legal history

2. Towards the jury in medieval Wales

3. Petit larceny, jury lenity and Parliament

4. The jury in English manorial courts

5. Jurors, evidence and the tempest of 1499

6. No link : the jury and the origins of the confrontation right and the hearsay rule

7. A quest of thoughts : representation and moral agency in the early Anglo-American jury

8. Jury research in the English Reports in CD-ROM

9. The limits of discretion : forgery and the jury at the Old Bailey, 1818-21

10. The strange life of the English civil jury, 1837-1914

11. The fate of the civil jury in late Victorian England : malicious prosecution as a test case.

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Includes index.

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1841133256

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xxi, 243 p.