This Assize was to replace the earlier case settlement method "trial by battle" (where the parties duelled to determine successful party) or "trial by ordeal" where an accused person would have to undergo a rather gruesome and painful task on the premise that, if they completed without injuries, or their injuries healed quickly, then they would be treated as innocent in any kind of charge lay against them.5 This was based on the principle of divine intervention and the belief that divine forces would not allow an innocent person to be harmed. ... Since then, Vaughan ruled...

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Wiretaps are an issue that affects every person in this country. That's because no matter how much we don't like to admit it, we need depend on telephone services more and more as time passes. The issue of telephone privacy becomes bigger and bigger every day as our telephone technology becomes more...

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Bordens and Bassett reached the conclusion that majority of people accept plea bargains to minimize punishment and because of factors such as direct and indirect pressure [Bor851]. ... The defense attorney and the prosecutor work together to reach an agreement on a plea bargain. ... Afterwards, if an agreement is reached between the two parties, they notify the judge and the guilty plea will be entered at the next court hearing. ...

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The In's and Out's of Political Participation In America political participation is an important factor when discussing democratic governments. Americans use their participation as their voice. By definition, democratic governments depend on political participation by citizens in order to keep demo...

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Austin: Positivist Identity of law: what makes the law the law Law (is) = Rules + (issued by a) Sovereignty. Rules = General Commands A command is an expression of a wish backed by a threat to inflict an evil (=sanction, like telling the child to get the toy is not a command unless it is backed by a threat) in case the wish is not fulfilled, issued by someone who is willing and able to act on the threat. All commands impose obligations. But only the general rules and commands. Eg: Prohibition of importation of corn is a rule, but one that prohibits the importation of a specific shipment of ...

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It is certain their laws, by virtue of any sanction they receive from the promulgated will of the legislature, reach not a stranger. ... From these two distinct rights (the one of punishing the crime, for restraint and preventing the like offence, which right of punishing is in everybody, the other of taking reparation, which belongs only to the injured party) comes it to pass that the magistrate, who by being magistrate hath the common right of punishing put into his hands, can often, where the public good demands not the execution of the law, remit the punishment of criminal offences by his ...

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