A History Of The Criminal Law Of England V1 1883

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Published in 1883, this three-volume account of English criminal law's development since 1200 remains a classic work of legal historical scholarship.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...put up to plead, a rule which made it exceedingly difficult for him to take advantage of any defect. But then again, any person might point out such a flaw, aud it was in a sort of way the duty of the judge as counsel for the prisoner to do so. On the other hand, some flaws were, and others were not, waived, by pleading to the indictment. In short, it is scarcely a parody to say, that from the earliest times to our own days, the law relating to indictments was much as if some small proportion of the prisoners convicted had been allowed to toss up for their liberty. In practice this system is to a great extent a thing of the past. Legally it is still in full force except so far as it has been relaxed by a few specific sections of acts of parliament. 1 I say practical impunity because the chance of his being indicted a second time and of the prosecution being able to prove that the flaw in the first indictment was such that he had never been legally in peril, and so could not plead autrefois acquit, was not great. ACTS OF 1828 AND 1851. The following are the practically important sections: --By 7 Geo. 4, c. 64 (1826), ss. 14--18 inclusive, it is enacted that the property of a number of articles (as to which it is difficult to say to whom they belong), may in any indictment be laid in particular persons, e.g. the property in things provided for the repair of a county bridge, may by s. 15 be laid in the inhabitants of the county, and none of them need be named. These provisions have saved a great deal of petty trouble. By s. 19 misnomers and wrong additions, or the want of an addition, are rendered practically unimportant. By 9 Geo. 4, c. 15 (1828), variances between allegations in indictments as to the contents of documents written or..

Excerpt from A History of the Criminal Law of England, Vol. 2 A History of the Criminal Law of England was written by James Fitzjames Stephen in 1883. This is a 514 page book, containing 210407 words and 6 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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