Author: Krista J. Kesselring Publisher: ISBN: 9781912702916 Category : Great Britain Languages : en Pages : 0
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"An extraordinary court with late medieval roots in the activities of the king's council, Star Chamber came into its own over the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, before being abolished in 1641 by members of parliament for what they deemed egregious abuses of royal power. Before its demise, the court heard a wide range of disputes in cases framed as fraud, libel, riot, and more. In so doing, it produced records of a sort that make its archive invaluable to many researchers today for insights into both the ordinary and extraordinary. The chapters gathered here explore what we can learn about the history of an age through both the practices of its courts and the disputes of the people who came before them. With Star Chamber, we view a court that came of age in an era of social, legal, religious, and political transformation, and one that left an exceptional wealth of documentation that will repay furtherstudy." -- Humanities Digital Library web site.
Author: Eric Dubin Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc. ISBN: 9781597775533 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 238
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An unprecedented inside look behind celebrity trials from attorney Eric Dubin. Dubin spent five years in the high profile trenches culminating with his 30-million-dollar jury verdict against Robert Blake for killing his wife. Dubin details the raw truth behind the scenes, when the media circus invades the courthouse, and the powerful effect it has on all participants, including the defendant, lawyers, judge, and jury, as well as the verdict.
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth Publisher: Library of Alexandria ISBN: 1465542302 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 581
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Adjoining the Vintry Wharf, and at the corner of a narrow lane communicating with Thames Street, there stood, in the early part of the Seventeenth Century, a tavern called the Three Cranes. This old and renowned place of entertainment had then been in existence more than two hundred years, though under other designations. In the reign of Richard II., when it was first established, it was styled the Painted Tavern, from the circumstance of its outer walls being fancifully coloured and adorned with Bacchanalian devices. But these decorations went out of fashion in time, and the tavern, somewhat changing its external features, though preserving all its internal comforts and accommodation, assumed the name of the Three Crowns, under which title it continued until the accession of Elizabeth, when it became (by a slight modification) the Three Cranes; and so remained in the days of her successor, and, indeed, long afterwards. Not that the last-adopted denomination had any reference, as might be supposed, to the three huge wooden instruments on the wharf, employed with ropes and pulleys to unload the lighters and other vessels that brought up butts and hogsheads of wine from the larger craft below Bridge, and constantly thronged the banks; though, no doubt, they indirectly suggested it. The Three Cranes depicted on the large signboard, suspended in front of the tavern, were long-necked, long-beaked birds, each with a golden fish in its bill.
Author: Eric Dubin Publisher: Phoenix Books ISBN: 1614670552 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 211
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The Star Chamber provides an unprecedented inside look behind celebrity trials from attorney Eric Dubin, who spent five years in the high-profile trenches culminating with his thirty-million-dollar jury verdict against Robert Blake for killing his wife. From his years as a network legal consultant to winning trial lawyer, Eric holds nothing back in The Star Chamber, his first-hand observations of the tainted justice that results from the celebrity glare.
Author: Krista J. Kesselring
Author: Michael Douglas
Author: Eric Dubin
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Author: William Ainsworth
Author: Great Britain. Court of Star Chamber
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Author: Eric Dubin