Author: Great Britain. High Court of AdmiraltyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Proceedings on His Majesty's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and Goal Delivery for the High Court of Admiralty of England
Author: Great Britain. High Court of AdmiraltyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Admiralty Sessions, 1536-1834
Author: Gregory J. DurstonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443873616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The growth in England and Britain’s merchant marine from the medieval period onwards meant that an increasing number of criminal offences were committed on or against the country’s vessels while they were at sea. Between 1536 and 1834, such crimes were determined at the Admiralty Sessions if brought to trial. This was a special part of the wider Admiralty Court, which, unlike the other forums in that tribunal, used English common law procedure rather than Roman civil law to try its cases. To a modest extent, this produced a ‘hybrid’ court, dominated by the common law but influenced by aspects of Europe’s other major legal tradition. The Admiralty Sessions also had their own (highly singular) regime for executing convicts, used the Marshalsea prison to hold their suspects and displayed the Admiralty Court’s ceremonial silver oar at their hearings and hangings. During the near three centuries of its existence, the Admiralty Sessions faced enormous legal and logistical problems. The crimes they tried might occur thousands of miles and months of sailing time away from England. Assembling evidence that would ‘stand up’ in front of a jury was a constant challenge, not least because of the peripatetic lives of the seafarers who provided most of their witnesses. The forum’s relationship with terrestrial criminal courts in England was often difficult and the demarcation between their respective jurisdictions was complicated and subject to change. Despite all of these problems, the court experienced significant successes, as well as notable failures, in its battle to deal with a litany of serious maritime crimes, ranging from piracy to murder at sea. It also spawned a series of Vice-Admiralty Courts in English and British colonies around the world. This book documents the origins, development and abolition of the Admiralty Sessions. It discusses all of the major crimes that were determined by the forum, and examines some of the more arcane and unusual offences that ended up there. Some of the unusual challenges presented by the maritime environment, whether the impossibility of preserving dead bodies at sea, the extensive power given to captains to physically punish sailors, the difficulty of securing suspects in small vessels, or the often gruesome problems occasioned by the marginal legal status of slaves, are also considered in detail.
The Statutes Relating to the Admiralty, Navy, Shipping, and Navigation of the United Kingdom
Author: Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Admiralty
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases
Author: Henry RoscoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence, Criminal
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
A Digest of the Law, Practice and Procedure Relating to Indictable Offences
Author: John Frederick ArchboldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The Law Times
Author: Chitty's Collection of Statutes
Author: Great BritainChitty's Collection of Statutes [1225-1864] with Notes Thereon
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Author: Great BritainChitty's Collection of Statutes, with Notes Thereon ... Second Edition, Containing All the Statutes of Practical Utility in the ... Administration of Justice in the Present Time. By W. N. Welsby ... and E. Beaven
Author: EnglandArchbold's Summary of the Law Relating to Pleading and Evidence in Criminal Cases
Author: John Frederick ArchboldPublisher:
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Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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