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Author : Robert Johnson Bonner
Release : 1905
Genre : Courts
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Book Synopsis Evidence in Athenian Courts by : Robert Johnson Bonner
Download or read book Evidence in Athenian Courts written by Robert Johnson Bonner. This book was released on 1905. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Johnson Bonner
Release : 2006
Genre : Courts
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Book Synopsis Evidence in Athenian Courts by : Robert Johnson Bonner
Download or read book Evidence in Athenian Courts written by Robert Johnson Bonner. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Author : Vasileios Adamidis
Release : 2016-11-25
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Character Evidence in the Courts of Classical Athens by : Vasileios Adamidis
Download or read book Character Evidence in the Courts of Classical Athens written by Vasileios Adamidis. This book was released on 2016-11-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Robert Johnson Bonner
Release : 1979
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Author : Robert Johnson Bonner
Release : 2013-09
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Book Synopsis Evidence in Athenian Courts by : Robert Johnson Bonner
Download or read book Evidence in Athenian Courts written by Robert Johnson Bonner. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...
