Superstition and Force; Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1866. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... t ' came around, they dawned on a new France, from which the old systems had been swept away as by the besom of destruction; and torture as an element of criminal jurisprudence was a thing of the past. By the decree of October 9th, 1789, it was abolished forever. In Italy, Beccaria, in 1764, took occasion to devote a few pages of his treatise on crimes and punishments to the subject of torture, and its illogical cruelty could not well be exposed with more terseness and force.1 It was probably due to the movement excited by this work that in 1786 torture was formally abolished in Tuscany. Yet Italy, which was the first to revive its use in the Middle Ages, was the last to abandon it. Unless we may disbelieve all that is told of the means adopted to preserve legitimacy against revolutionism during the interval between Napoleon and Garibaldi, the dungeons of Naples and Palermo may boast of being the last European refuge of this relic of brutal and unreasoning force. In casting a retrospective glance over this long history of cruelty and injustice, it is curious to observe that Christian communities, where the truths of the Gospel were received with unquestioning veneration, systematized the administration of torture with a cold-blooded ferocity unknown to the legislation. of the heathen nations whence they derived it. The careful restrictions and safeguards, with which the Roman jurisprudence sought to protect the interests of the accused, contrast strangely with the reckless disregard of every principle of justice which sullies the criminal procedure of Europe from the thirteenth 1 Dei Delitti e delle Pene xII.--The fundamental error in the prevalent system of criminal procedure is well exposed in Beccaria's remark that a mathematician would be better than ...

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1866. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... t ' came around, they dawned on a new France, from which the old systems had been swept away as by the besom of destruction; and torture as an element of criminal jurisprudence was a thing of the past. By the decree of October 9th, 1789, it was abolished forever. In Italy, Beccaria, in 1764, took occasion to devote a few pages of his treatise on crimes and punishments to the subject of torture, and its illogical cruelty could not well be exposed with more terseness and force.1 It was probably due to the movement excited by this work that in 1786 torture was formally abolished in Tuscany. Yet Italy, which was the first to revive its use in the Middle Ages, was the last to abandon it. Unless we may disbelieve all that is told of the means adopted to preserve legitimacy against revolutionism during the interval between Napoleon and Garibaldi, the dungeons of Naples and Palermo may boast of being the last European refuge of this relic of brutal and unreasoning force. In casting a retrospective glance over this long history of cruelty and injustice, it is curious to observe that Christian communities, where the truths of the Gospel were received with unquestioning veneration, systematized the administration of torture with a cold-blooded ferocity unknown to the legislation. of the heathen nations whence they derived it. The careful restrictions and safeguards, with which the Roman jurisprudence sought to protect the interests of the accused, contrast strangely with the reckless disregard of every principle of justice which sullies the criminal procedure of Europe from the thirteenth 1 Dei Delitti e delle Pene xII.--The fundamental error in the prevalent system of criminal procedure is well exposed in Beccaria's remark that a mathematician would be better than ...

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General Books LLC

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2012

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2012

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246 x 189 x 8mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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392

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978-1-4588-5542-8

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9781458855428

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1-4588-5542-2



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