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For the last 800 years coroners have been important in England's legal and political landscape, best known as investigators of sudden, suspicious, or unexplained death. In contrast, historians have largely ignored, misunderstood, or dismissed the office of coroner in Scotland. Contrary to popular belief, Scotland had coroners, but their functions were quite different from their English namesakes. Against the background of the coroner's role in historic England, this book explains how sudden death was investigated by magistrates in Scotland. It explores how Scottish coroners functioned as executive judicial officers, who serviced criminal circuit courts. They were men of action who dealt primarily with living miscreants and their assets, while also having other tasks, including quasi-military roles. The book explains their place in late medieval and early modern Scottish justice and how, over time, they were side-lined by changes in the constitution of courts and in legal procedures, becoming obsolete in the eighteenth century. Finally, it draws intriguing parallels between the distinctive role of coroners in the north of England and Wales, prior to the seventeenth century, and their counterparts in Scotland. It is a study in legal history, which also sheds valuable light on social, administrative, and political formations in the component parts of historic Britain. It provides essential historical background for understanding the work of coroners in the modern world.

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• Plný název: Coroners of Northern Britain c. 1300-1700
• Autor: Rab Houston
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 123
• EAN: 9781137381064
• ISBN: 113738106X
• ID: 04771593
• Nakladatelství: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Hmotnost: 316 g
• Rozměry: 225 × 147 × 16 mm
• Datum vydání: 18. March 2014

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