Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for Murder, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and Other Offences. to Which Are Added, Genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour, Confessions and Dying Speeches of the Most Eminent... (Paperback)

Full Title: "Select Trials at The Sessions-House in The Old-Bailey, for Murder, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and Other Offences. To Which are Added, Genuine Accounts of The Lives, Behaviour, Confessions and Dying Speeches of The Most Eminent Canv"Description: "The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial."Trials" provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++MonographHarvard Law School LibraryLondon: Printed by J. Applebee in Bolt-Court, Fleet-Street, for George Strahan in Cornhill, Sam. Birt in Ave-Mary-Lane, Charles Hitch in Pater-Noster-Row, Stephen Austen and John Rivington in St. Paul's Church-Yard, James Hodges Over-Against St. Magnus Ch