Engines of truth : producing veracity in the Victorian courtroom /

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During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad array of archival research, Wendie Schneider'...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schneider, Wendie Ellen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
1800-1899
Cross-examination > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Procedure (Law) > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Procédure (Droit) > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Contre-interrogatoire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LAW > Legal History.
Cross-examination
Procedure (Law)
Great Britain
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The rise and fall of perjury prosecutions
  • The gentlemanly art of cross-examination
  • Perjury and prevarication in British India
  • The queen's proctor : an inquisitorial experiment
  • Adultery, sex offenses, and the Criminal Evidence Act of 1898.

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