TY  - GEN
T1  - Engines of Truth
A1  - Schneider, Wendie Ellen
LA  - eng
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-39471
AB  - 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.” This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
SN  - 9780300125665
KW  - history
KW  - Adultery
KW  - Barrister
KW  - Cross-examination
KW  - Defendant
KW  - Divorce
KW  - Divorce Court
KW  - Perjury
KW  - Proctor
KW  - Victorian era
KW  - thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal history
ER  -