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Verdict according to conscience: perspectives on the English criminal trial jury, 1200-1800

Thomas Andrew Green 1985 © University of Chicago Press
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  • 9780226306094 (paper)
  • 9780226306438 (ebook)
  • 9780226306100 (hardcover)
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  • Legal
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction (page xiii)
  • Part I: ORIGINS
    • 1. The Criminal Trial Jury: Origins and Early Development-an Interpretive Overview (page 3)
    • 2. Societal Concepts of Criminal Liability and Jury Nullification of the Law in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (page 28)
    • 3. Judge, Jury, and the Evolution of the Criminal Law in Medieval England (page 65)
  • Part II: TRANSFORMATIONS
    • 4. The Transformation of Jury Trial in Early Modern England (page 105)
    • 5. Conscience and the True Law: The Ideology of Jury Law-Finding in the Interregnum (page 153)
    • 6. The Principle of Noncoercion: The Contest over the Role of the Jury in the Restoration (page 200)
  • Part III: RESOLUTIONS
    • 7. Jury Trial and Its Critics in the Eighteenth Century (page 267)
    • 8. The Jury, Seditious Libel, and the Criminal Law (page 318)
    • 9. Epilogue and Conclusion (page 356)
  • Index of Persons and Places (page 385)
  • Index of Subjects (page 395)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MILR 84.4/5 (Feb.-Apr. 1986): 787-800 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1288848
JSocH 20.3 (Spring 1987): 644-645 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3788134
SCJ 21.4 (Winter 1990): 716-717 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2542223
AAAPSS 491 (May 1987): 188-189 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1045089
JMH 58.4 (Dec. 1986): 908-910 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1880123
AJLH 32.1 (Jan. 1988): 80-82 http://www.jstor.org/stable/845996
AHR 91.2 (Apr. 1986): 389 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1858181
SLR 38.1 (Nov. 1985): 265-270 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1228607
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