- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 265 pages)
- 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."
- Uniform Title
- Engines of truth (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Engines of truth (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-258) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2015935095
- OCLC
- ssj0001689535
- Author
Schneider, Wendie Ellen.
- Title
Engines of truth [electronic resource] : producing veracity in the Victorian courtroom / Wendie Ellen Schneider.
- Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-258) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Chronological Term
1800-1899