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This is a history of the privilege in law against self-incrimination, demonstrating that what is sometimes considered an unchanging tenet of the legal system has actually encompassed many different legal consequences. The book seeks to uncover what the privilege meant in practice.

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Preface Abbreviations 1: Introduction R. H. Helmholz 2: The Privilege and the Ius Commune: The Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century R. H. Helmholz 3: Self-Incrimination in Interjurisdictional Law: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Charles M. Gray 4: The Privilege and Common Law Criminal Procedure: The Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries John H. Langbein 5: The Privilege in British North America: The Colonial Period to the Fifth Amendment Eben Moglen 6: The Modern Privilege: Its Nineteenth-Century Origins Henry E. Smith 7: A Peculiar Privilege in Historical Perspective Albert W. Alschuler Notes Table of Statutes Index

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/8/1997 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226326603, 978-0226326603
      ISBN10: 0226326608
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      Law Constitutional and administrative law: general Criminal law: procedure and offences Jurisprudence and general issues

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is a history of the privilege in law against self-incrimination, demonstrating that what is sometimes considered an unchanging tenet of the legal system has actually encompassed many different legal consequences. The book seeks to uncover what the privilege meant in practice.

      Table of Contents
      Preface Abbreviations 1: Introduction R. H. Helmholz 2: The Privilege and the Ius Commune: The Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century R. H. Helmholz 3: Self-Incrimination in Interjurisdictional Law: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Charles M. Gray 4: The Privilege and Common Law Criminal Procedure: The Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries John H. Langbein 5: The Privilege in British North America: The Colonial Period to the Fifth Amendment Eben Moglen 6: The Modern Privilege: Its Nineteenth-Century Origins Henry E. Smith 7: A Peculiar Privilege in Historical Perspective Albert W. Alschuler Notes Table of Statutes Index

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