Category: History - European
Criminal prosecution of rats--Chassenée appointed to defend them--Report of the trial--Chassenée employed as counsel in other cases of this kind--His dissertation on the subject-- Nature of his argument--Authorities and precedents--The withering of the fig-tree at Bethany just...
It is said that Bartholomew Chassenée,[1] a distinguished French jurist of the sixteenth century (born at Issy-l’Evêque in 1480), made his reputation at the bar as counsel for s...
4. CHAPTER IIA striking and significant indication of the remarkable change that has come over the spirit of legislation, and more especially of criminal jurisprudence, in comparatively rece...
2. CHAPTER IIRecent change in the spirit of criminal jurisprudence-- Mediæval tribunals cut with the executioner’s sword the intricate knots which the modern criminalist essays to untie--Phl...
1. CHAPTER ICriminal prosecution of rats--Chassenée appointed to defend them--Report of the trial--Chassenée employed as counsel in other cases of this kind--His dissertation on the subject...