Richard Mowery Andrews

Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735 1789

Volume 1, the System of Criminal Justice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first of two volumes centred around the two great courts of eighteenth-century Paris.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 945g
• ISBN-13: 9780521526364
• ISBN-10: 0521526361
• Artikelnr.: 21871160

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations, charts, and tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Principal sources and abbreviations
General introduction: A. The metropolis and its region
B. The judiciary within the city
C. The judiciary within the state
Part I. Themistocracy: Introduction: meanings
1. The Châtelet of Paris
2. The Parlement of Paris
3. Themistocrats
4. A Fourth Estate: the uniqueness of the themistocracy
5. Themistocratic family and kinship: the Maussions and their allies
6. Professional culture
Conclusion: rule of law
Appendix: letter of appointment for Augustin Testard du Lys
Part II. Punishment: Introduction: imagery
7. Liability and immunity
8. Purposes
9. Forms
10. Royal mercy
Conclusion: tradition and modernity
Appendix: arrest de la cour du Parlement
Part III. Trial and Judgement: The Procedure of the 1670 Criminal Ordinance: Introduction: origins and legend
11. Initiating judicial action
12. Preparatory instruction
13. Definitive instruction
14. Interlocutory judgement
15. Definitive judgement
Conclusion: principles
Appendix: penal decision, a mathematical model
Part IV. Trials and Judgments: Illustrative Cases: Introduction: the case record
16. Assault
17. Theft
18. Murder
Conclusion: judgement: knowledge or power?
Conclusion to volume I
Index.