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Engines of truth : producing veracity in the Victorian courtroom
Title
Engines of truth : producing veracity in the Victorian courtroom / Wendie Ellen Schneider.
ISBN
9780300216554
0300216556
0300125666
9780300125665
9780300125665
0300125666
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 265 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
English.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
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's examination of the Victorian courtroom charts this period of experimentation and how its innovations shaped contemporary trial procedure. Blending legal, social, and colonial history, she shines new light on cross-examination, the most enduring product of this time and the "greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth."
Variant and related titles
YUP @ JSTOR.
Other formats
Print version: Schneider, Wendie Ellen. Engines of truth
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 11, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-258) and index.
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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Genre/Form
History.
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