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By Francis Watt
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A collection of essays examines obsolete English legal practices and institutions through vivid historical description and literary reflection. Subjects include public executions and their ritual processions, punishments such as the pillory and cart, celebrated trials for witchcraft, notorious parricides, disused routes to marriage, border law customs, and the role of the serjeant-at-law. The pieces reconstruct ceremonies, courtroom procedure, and prison routine while considering popular reactions and the moral atmosphere surrounding crime and punishment. Together they trace how legal reforms and shifting public sensibilities humanized the system even as many dramatic and picturesque features of earlier practice disappeared.

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Title: The Law's Lumber Room (Second Series)

Author: Francis Watt

Release date: October 28, 2017 [eBook #55839]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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The Law’s Lumber Room

The rusty curb of old father antic—the law
Falstaff

The Law’s
Lumber
Room

By
Francis
Watt

Second Series

John Lane, The Bodley Head
London and New York
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