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    • Author/Creator:Schneider, Wendie Ellen, author.
    • Title:Engines of truth : producing veracity in the Victorian courtroom / Wendie Ellen Schneider.
    • ISBN:9780300216554
      0300216556
      0300125666
      9780300125665
      9780300125665
      0300125666
    • Publication:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
    • Copyright notice date: ©2015
    • Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 265 pages) : illustrations
    • Links:Online book

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    • Notes:English.
      Description based on print version record.
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    • Summary:During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad array of archival research, Wendie Schneider's examination of the Victorian courtroom charts this period of experimentation and how its innovations shaped contemporary trial procedure. Blending legal, social, and colonial history, she shines new light on cross-examination, the most enduring product of this time and the "greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth."
    • Variant and related titles:YUP @ JSTOR.
    • Other formats:Print version: Schneider, Wendie Ellen. Engines of truth
    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-258) and index.
    • Contents:The rise and fall of perjury prosecutions -- The gentlemanly art of cross-examination -- Perjury and prevarication in British India -- The queen's proctor : an inquisitorial experiment -- Adultery, sex offenses, and the Criminal Evidence Act of 1898.
    • Subjects:Procedure (Law)--Great Britain--History--19th century.
      Cross-examination--Great Britain--History--19th century.
      Procedure (Law)
      Great Britain.
      History
    • Genre/Form:History.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15638869