Famous Trials of History
by Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
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Full Title: Famous Trials of HistoryDescription: 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 show more 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: ++++MonographSecondYale Law LibraryLondon: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd. Paternoster Row, 1926 show lessTags
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Twenty-three English trials, the two I recognized were that of Mary Queen of Scots, and the trial of Captain Kidd.
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- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
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- 345.41 — Society, government, & culture Law Criminal Law Europe British Isles -- Ireland & Scotland
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- KD370 .B57 — Law Law of the United Kingdom and Ireland Law of England and Wales Trials Criminal trials and judicial investigations
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- English
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- 5
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- 7
