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2 giorni fa · May 25, 2024. For centuries, the death penalty was a grim fixture of the British criminal justice system. The condemned, whether commoners or queens, faced the ultimate punishment for crimes ranging from murder and treason to theft and heresy. While the gallows may be gone, the dark legacy of capital punishment has left an indelible mark on ...
3 giorni fa · Remained a capital offence until the bringing into force of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 c 37 s 36, when replaced by life imprisonment. Attainder meant that the punishment could extend to the next generation: heirs of traitors could be prevented from inheriting property or titles. Treason Act 1351 (25 Edw 3 stat 5 c 2)
- Elizabeth Wells
- 2010
5 giorni fa · Punishment was normally to take the form of a spell in prison, banishment from court, removal from the commission of the peace (if the offender was a J.P.) and deprivation of 'that usual and ordinarie liberties (which all gentlemen enjoy as their birth right) to weare swords and daggers.'
6 giorni fa · Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England 1740-1820. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN: 9780198229100; 396pp.; Price: £118.00. Crime and the law, particularly during the period of the Hanoverian Bloody Code, has been a popular area of research for a quarter of a century. The publications that emerged from Edward Thompson and the ...
3 giorni fa · Corporal punishment in the context of schools in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has been variously defined as: causing deliberate pain to a child in response to the child's undesired behavior and/or language, "purposeful infliction of bodily pain or discomfort by an official in the educational system upon a student as a ...
5 giorni fa · Blasphemy in Modern Britain: 1789 to the Present provides a valuable survey of the history of blasphemy in Britain, and of many of the debates surrounding it, from the late eighteenth century until the late twentieth century.
2 giorni fa · ORIGINAL WRITS. (1) The writ of right. (2) The writ of novel disseisin. (3) The writ of mort d'ancestor. (4) The writ of darrein presentment. (5) The writ iuris utrum. (6) The writ of covenant or praecipe. (7) The writ of warranty of charter. (8) The writ of customs and services.
