Petty Treason

Author : Madeleine E. Robins
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466806664
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Petty Treason written by Madeleine E. Robins and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Miss Tolerance's Regency London, where nothing is what it seems and the only way to serve justice is to follow conscience rather than law. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Fallen Woman of good family must, soon or late, descend to whoredom. Miss Sarah Tolerance refuses to follow the path of the Fallen Women who have gone before her. She's a straight shooter, with her pistol as well as her wit, and her mind is as sharp as the blade of her sword. Miss Tolerance is an Agent of Inquiry, a private investigator of sorts--the sole one of her kind in London, in this year of 1810 with mad King George III on the throne and Queen Charlotte acting as his Regent. Her aim was to trace lost trinkets, send wastrel husbands back to their wives, and occasionally provide protection to persons with more money than sense--but she is continually drawn into the plots of others. Her newest case poses a puzzle unlike any she has faced before: who killed the Chevalier d'Aubigny? The French émigré was beaten to death in his own bed, found by his retainers the next morning, all the doors and windows of the house sealed tight. The murder is a classic locked-room mystery, but Miss Tolerance knows she can find the key. As Miss Tolerance examines the situation and interviews witnesses and suspects, she realizes things are far more complicated than she originally suspected--for the Chevalier had more enemies than he had friends, and Miss Tolerance is hard pressed to find someone who didn't wish him dead. Her search for his killer takes her from the lowest brothels of the seedy London underworld, where men go to indulge their more aggressive desires, to the Royal Family and a Duke who must hide his perversions or risk the Throne. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Floyd Seyward Lear
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029275910X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treason in Roman and Germanic Law written by Floyd Seyward Lear and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Treason" is a word with many connotations, a word applied to a host of varied offenses throughout the history of humanity. These essays by Floyd Seyward Lear analyze the development of the political theory of treason from its beginning in Roman Law to its transformation in the Germanic custom of the early Middle Ages. The author has presented treason as a political idea, possessing historical continuity, though varying from age to age as it follows the evolution of political authority itself. These studies trace the shifting emphasis in crimes against the state from acts directed against a central absolutist authority to acts involving the personal relationship of a pledged troth and individual fealty. This is a shift from the concept of majesty in Roman law to the concept of fidelity in Germanic law with the corollary shift from allegiance as an act of deference to allegiance as a token of mutual fidelity. These ideas are examined chronologically across an interval extending from archaic Roman law to incipiently feudal forms, from which modern theories of treason, allegiance, and sovereignty derive. Contemporary concepts in these political areas can hardly be understood apart from their historical origins. Broadly considered, this work is intended as a contribution to intellectual history. Further, this collection represents the synthesis of material widely scattered in the primary sources and relevant secondary works. The two concluding bibliographical essays are intended as a general survey of the literature relevant to these studies in Roman and Germanic public law. Descriptive and interpretive works which deal with treason and its allied aspects of political and legal theory are not numerous in the English language.

Author : J. G. Bellamy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521526388
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages written by J. G. Bellamy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Bellamy places the theory of treason in its political setting and analyses the part it played in the development of legal and political thought in this period. He pays particular attention to the Statute of Treason of 1352, an act with a notable effect on later constitutional history and which, in the opinion of Edward Coke, had a legal importance second only to that of Magna Carta. He traces the English law of treason to Roman and Germanic origins, and discusses the development of royal attitudes towards rebellion, the judicial procedures used to try and condemn suspected traitors, and the interaction of the law of treason and constitutional ideas.

Author : Frances E. Dolan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501707272
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Familiars written by Frances E. Dolan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or mother. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why.Frances E. Dolan examines stories ranging from the profoundly disturbing to the comically macabre: of husband murder, wife murder, infanticide, and witchcraft. She surveys trial transcripts, confessions, and scaffold speeches, as well as pamphlets, ballads, popular plays based on notorious crimes, and such well-known works as The Tempest, Othello, Macbeth, and The Winter's Tale. Citing contemporary analogies between the politics of household and commonwealth, she shows how both legal and literary narratives attempt to restore the order threatened by insubordinate dependents.

Author : Great Britain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Statutes at Large written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1763 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Thomas Law
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
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Download or read book The Ecclesiastical Statutes at Large, Extracted from the Great Body of the Statute Law, and Arranged Under Separate Heads written by James Thomas Law and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004400699
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treason written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors written by and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Bayly Howell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason written by Thomas Bayly Howell and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Bayly Howell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
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Download or read book A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783 written by Thomas Bayly Howell and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: