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The Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, vol. 11‘The honour of Old Wardon’, by the late William Farrer, with an introduction by James Tait. [With pedigrees] ‘Early records of Turvey and its neighbourhood, Part I: A The Drayton Charters; B The Halstead Charters’, by G. Herbert Fowler. [The Drayton charters, so called because they were found at Drayton House, Northamptonshire, include 23 charter relating to Turvey in the period 1138 to 1403. They are printed here in Latin, with extensive notes. The second part of the article discusses documents on the Mordaunt family of Turvey used by Robert Halstead in his Succinct genealogies of the noble and ancient houses … (1685) and concludes, by comparing them with the Drayton charters, that the documents are forgeries.] ‘Ecclesiastical troubles in Dunstable, c.1616’, by S. Peyton. [Star chamber proceedings instituted by Edward Alport, clerk.] ‘The inventory of Toddington manor house, 1644’, by Jos. Hight Blundell.‘Note on the Peyvre family’, by G. H. F. [A correction to notes and pedigrees on the Peyvre family in volume 10 at p. 318.]

For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window onto democratic Athens' fundamental values than simply a set of official practices. From imprisonment to stoning to refusal of burial, instances of punishment in ancient Athens fueled conversations among ordinary citizens and political and literary figures about the nature of justice. Re-creating in vivid detail the cultural context of this conversation, Allen shows that punishment gave the community an opportunity to establish a shining myth of harmony and cleanliness: that the city could be purified of anger and social struggle, and perfect order achieved. Each member of the city--including notably women and slaves--had a specific role to play in restoring equilibrium among punisher, punished, and society. The common view is that democratic legal processes moved away from the \"emotional and personal\" to the \"rational and civic,\" but Allen shows that anger, honor, reciprocity, spectacle, and social memory constantly prevailed in Athenian law and politics. Allen draws upon oratory, tragedy, and philosophy to present the lively intellectual climate in which punishment was incurred, debated, and inflicted by Athenians. Broad in scope, this book is one of the first to offer both a full account of punishment in antiquity and an examination of the political stakes of democratic punishment. It will engage classicists, political theorists, legal historians, and anyone wishing to learn more about the relations between institutions and culture, normative ideas and daily events, punishment and democracy.

Back to where we started: you’ve just died. At your funeral, someone fumes, “Embezzled money at work. Diddled children in the park. Popped kittens in the microwave for fun.” The story takes off—but this time I’ll imagine that you’re concerned. You know that even though you’re dead, a lawyer can make sure your will is enforced; even though you’re dead, a lawyer can protect your privacy. The law manifestly doesn’t adopt the oblivion thesis, whatever skeptics may think. You know too that we generally shrink from speaking ill of the dead. Surely, you think, a lawyer can vindicate your

The most common usage of the term \"Star Chamber\" today is as an equivalent for the colloquial \"kangaroo court\", meaning a biased and capricious tribunal motivated by malice. But that was not always so. The tale of the Star Chamber forms a small part of the on-going rediscovery and reinterpretation of the Middle Ages: a process which has to some degree subsumed \"real history\". The abolition of the Star Chamber in 1641 as an object meant that its subjectivisation, the \"Star Chamber\" legend, has had a perfect environment for development - virtually unrestrained by any existent reference point.

The United States Supreme Court surely knows about them. It heard California's famous trash can case 11 years ago and ultimately let 'Star Chamber' Dramatizes Civics, If a Bit Unfairly the state court decision stand. And this fall, the Justices will reconsider the issue that underlies most such technical arguments, the 67-year-old exclusionary rule, which forbids law enforcement to use illegally obtained evidence. ''Star Chamber'' provides a lively and useful vehicle by which ordinary citizens can think the question through for themselves. There are some things wrong with the picture. In this trash case, the judge did not have to exclude the gun as evidence. He could have ruled that the doctrine of hot pursuit justified the gun's seizure, or that for the officers to see the man throw the gun away constituted as clear a case of abandoned property as is known to the law. There's a more serious flaw. The film fails to explain the purpose of the exclusionary rule. It is to deter the police from violating the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches and seizures and to prevent the courts from becoming accomplices in such illegality.