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The origins of reasonable doubt : theological roots of the criminal trial
- Title
- The origins of reasonable doubt : theological roots of the criminal trial / James Q. Whitman.
- Author
- Whitman, James Q., 1957-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 276 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-269) and index.
- Contents
- Of factual proof and moral comfort -- The Christian judge and the taint of blood : the theology of killing in war and law -- The decline of the judicial ordeal : from God as witness to man as witness -- Salvation for the judge, damnation for the witnesses : the continent -- Salvation for the judge, damnation for the jury : England -- The crises of the seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century : the rule emerges.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-1613
- ISBN
- 9780300116007 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0300116004 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007033384
- OCLC
- 154689010
- Author
- Whitman, James Q., 1957-
- Title
- The origins of reasonable doubt : theological roots of the criminal trial / James Q. Whitman.
- Imprint
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-269) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-1613