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Evidence In Athenian Courts
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Author : Robert Johnson Bonner
language : en
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Release Date : 2006
Evidence In Athenian Courts written by Robert Johnson Bonner and has been published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Courts categories.
"This is a learned, keen and vigorous essay dealing with the subject of Evidence in Athenian Courts from the standpoint of English law. (...) Writers on the theory and practice of evidence wherever considered or used, will find this work valuable. And practitioners had better not turn their backs on an account of classics which goes into the human nature of art in the way indicated by the following description of how Greek speech writers served their clients who were conventionally supposed to use their own language about their own cases.": Charles E. Grinnell, American Law Review 42 (1948) 946.
Evidence In Athenian Courts
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Author : Robert Johnson Bonner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Evidence In Athenian Courts written by Robert Johnson Bonner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with categories.
Evidence In Athenian Courts
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Author : Robert Johnson Bonner
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Evidence In Athenian Courts written by Robert Johnson Bonner and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The experience of Athens has shown that law may be administered satisfactorily without a professional class either of judges or of lawyers. Magistrates chosen by lot were constantly required to exercise important judicial functions for which they had no special training; nor were they able to gain a fund of knowledge by experience, as they held office for one year only. In all probability, the general efficiency of the magistrates was largely due to the practice which permitted them to choose their own assessors. This enabled a weak magistrate to secure the assistance of a competent man to aid him in his official duties. There is, however, no indication that these assessors were reappointed by succeeding magistrates, as is the case in the British system of government, where deputies may continue to hold office under different ministers of the crown. With the object of making each citizen take his full share in public life, and of preserving equality ( crorifita) in the citizen body, litigants, if citizens, were required to take their own cases in court. But this was an ideal beyond the possibility of achievement even in the Athens of Pericles. And so there arose a class of men whose business it was to write speeches for those who were unequal to the task of pleading their own cases. These Koyvfpajxu. did to a certain degree constitute a professional class, but they were not lawyers in our sense of the word. A knowledge of rhetoric was quite as important for their success as a knowledge of law. Moreover, the necessity of fitting the speech to the character of his client tended to keep the speech-writer in the background. Indeed, every artifice was resorted to in order to keep up the delusion that the litigant...
Character Evidence In The Courts Of Classical Athens
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Author : Vasileios Adamidis
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-11-25
Character Evidence In The Courts Of Classical Athens written by Vasileios Adamidis and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-25 with History categories.
There has been much debate in scholarship over the factors determining the outcome of legal hearings in classical Athens. Specifically, there is divergence regarding the extent to which judicial panels were influenced by non-legal considerations in addition to, or even instead of, questions of law. Ancient rhetorical theory and practice devoted much attention to character and it is this aspect of Athenian law which forms the focus of this book. Close analysis of the dispute-resolution passages in ancient Greek literature reveals striking similarities with the rhetoric of litigants in the Athenian courts and thus helps to shed light on the function of the courts and the fundamental nature of Athenian law. The widespread use of character evidence in every aspect of argumentation can be traced to the Greek ideas of ‘character’ and ‘personality’, the inductive method of reasoning, and the social, political and institutional structures of the ancient Greek polis. According to the author’s proposed method of interpretation, character evidence was not a means of diverting the jury’s attention away from the legal issues; instead, it was a constructive and relevant way of developing a legal argument.
Evidence In Athenian Courts
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Author : Robert J. Bonner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-28
Evidence In Athenian Courts written by Robert J. Bonner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-28 with History categories.
Use And Abuse Of Law In The Athenian Courts
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Author : Chris Carey
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-10-02
Use And Abuse Of Law In The Athenian Courts written by Chris Carey and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-02 with History categories.
This volume brings together leading scholars and rising researchers in the field of Greek law to examine the role played by the law in thinking and practice in the legal system of classical Athens from a variety of perspectives.
Forensic Narratives In Athenian Courts
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Author : Mike Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-01
Forensic Narratives In Athenian Courts written by Mike Edwards and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-01 with History categories.
Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts breaks new ground by exploring different aspects of forensic storytelling in Athenian legal speeches and the ways in which forensic narratives reflect normative concerns and legal issues. The chapters, written by distinguished experts in Athenian oratory and society, explore the importance of narratives for the arguments of relatively underdiscussed orators such as Isaeus and Apollodorus. They employ new methods to investigate issues such as speeches’ deceptiveness or the appraisals which constitute the emotion scripts that speakers put together. This volume not only addresses a gap in the field of Athenian oratory, but also encourages comparative approaches to forensic narratives and fiction, and fresh investigations of the implications of forensic storytelling for other literary genres. Forensic Narratives in Athenian Courts will be an invaluable resource to students and researchers of Athenian oratory and their legal system, as well as those working on Greek society and literature more broadly.
Law And Justice In The Courts Of Classical Athens
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Author : Adriaan Lanni
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-02-27
Law And Justice In The Courts Of Classical Athens written by Adriaan Lanni and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-27 with History categories.
In this 2006 book, Adriaan Lanni draws on contemporary legal thinking to present a model of the legal system of classical Athens. She analyses the Athenians' preference in most cases for ad hoc, discretionary decision-making, as opposed to what moderns would call the rule of law. Lanni argues that the Athenians consciously employed different approaches to legal decision-making in different types of courts. The varied approaches to legal process stems from a deep tension in Athenian practice and thinking, between the demand for flexibility of legal interpretation consistent with the exercise of democratic power by ordinary Athenian jurors; and the demand for consistency and predictability in legal interpretation expected by litigants and necessary to permit citizens to conform their conduct to the law. Lanni presents classical Athens as a case study of a successful legal system that, by modern standards, had an extraordinarily individualised and discretionary approach to justice.
Disputes And Democracy
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Author : Steven Johnstone
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-05
Disputes And Democracy written by Steven Johnstone and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-05 with History categories.
Athenians performed democracy daily in their law courts. Without lawyers or judges, private citizens, acting as accusers and defendants, argued their own cases directly to juries composed typically of 201 to 501 jurors, who voted on a verdict without deliberation. This legal system strengthened and perpetuated democracy as Athenians understood it, for it emphasized the ideological equality of all (male) citizens and the hierarchy that placed them above women, children, and slaves. This study uses Athenian court speeches to trace the consequences for both disputants and society of individuals' decisions to turn their quarrels into legal cases. Steven Johnstone describes the rhetorical strategies that prosecutors and defendants used to persuade juries and shows how these strategies reveal both the problems and the possibilities of language in the Athenian courts. He argues that Athenian "law" had no objective existence outside the courts and was, therefore, itself inherently rhetorical. This daring new interpretation advances an understanding of Athenian democracy that is not narrowly political, but rather links power to the practices of a particular institution.
The Rule Of Law In Action In Democratic Athens
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Author : Edward M. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-08
The Rule Of Law In Action In Democratic Athens written by Edward M. Harris and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with History categories.
The Rule of Law in Action in Democratic Athens examines how the Athenians attempted to enforce and apply the law when judging disputes in court. Recent scholarship has paid considerable attention to the practice and execution of Greek law. However, much of this work has left several flawed assumptions unchallenged, such as that Athenian law was primarily concerned with procedure; that the main task of enforcement lay in the hands of private citizens; that the Athenians used the courts not to uphold the law but to pursue personal feuds; and that the Athenian courts rendered ad hoc judgments and paid little attention to the letter of the law. Drawing on modern legal theory, the author examines the nature of "open texture" in Athenian law and reveals that the Athenians were much more sophisticated in their approach to law than many modern scholars have assumed, and thus breaks considerable new ground in the field. At the same time, the book studies the weaknesses of the Athenian legal system and how they contributed to Athens' defeat in the Peloponnesian War. By reexamining the available evidence, Edward Harris provides a much needed corrective to long-held views and places the Athenian administration of justice in its broad political and social context.