British India's Relation with the Kingdom of Nepal, 1857-1947 Book

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1894 Original Publisher: The Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Co. Subjects: Jury Law / General Law / Civil Procedure Law / Jury Law / Trial Practice Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. THE DIKAST8 OF GREECE. The development of the jury may justly be said to measure the march of civilization. "In the early stages of society . . . causes are decided by persons of station and authority, without reference to any supposed special qualification on their part; it is only as civilization advances and laws become more complicated, that the study and application of them assumes the form of a distinct profession." Among the Oriental nations, no traces of jury trial are discoverable. With the Jews and Phoenicians (who may be taken as fair representatives) the administration of justice was monopolized by the priests, who were judges both of law and fact,' paying but little deference 1 Best, Ev. 6 83, note. "For all manner of [civil] trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another chal- lengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbor." Exodus, XXII. 9. The judges here referred to must not be confounded with Samuel and his fifteen predecessors (among whom Deborah), who under that appellation directed the affairs of Palestine at intervals during the four and a half centuries between the death of Joshua and the reign of Saul. Their office "was rather that of the military dictator, raised on an emergency to the command of the national forces. What his judicial functions coul...Read More