| The Old Bailey Chronicle; Containing a Circumstantial Account of the Lives, Trials, and Confessions of the Most Notorious Offenders Who Have Suffered Contributor(s): Mountague, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 1274713935 ISBN-13: 9781274713933 Publisher: Gale, Making of Modern Law OUR PRICE: $33.01 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Law |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" (1.60 lbs) 408 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Full Title: The Old Bailey Chronicle; Containing a Circumstantial Account of the Lives, Trials, and Confessions of the most notorious Offenders who have suffered Death, and other exemplary Punishments, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the Commencement of the Y Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial.Trials provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Monograph Harvard Law School Library London: Printed, by Authority, for S. Smith, No. 3, Paternoster-Row; and sold by all Book-sellers and News-Carriers in Great Britain and Ireland. 1788. |
