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A group of teachers plan to stage a play in a village. When a cast-member does not show up, a local stagehand is asked to replace him. An improvised, free-flowing 'rehearsal' is arranged and a mock trial is staged to make the novice understand court procedures. A (mock) charge of infanticide is leveled against Miss Benare, another cast-member.
Sir James Foulis of Colinton, who was added at the first meeting of the court when the king made him a "Lord of the Session". The college at its foundation dealt with underdeveloped civil law . It did not dispense justice in criminal matters as that was an area of the law reserved to the king's justice, through the justiciars (hence the High ...
The Court of Session [a] is the highest national court of Scotland in civil cases. The court was established in 1532 to take on the judicial functions of the royal council. Its jurisdiction overlapped with other royal, state and church courts but as those were disbanded, the role of the Court of Session ascended.
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Image credits: bossnimrod89 In the U.S., during 2020, when adoption rates spiked, 2% more animals left shelters than arrived, according to Shelter Animals Count.However, by 2021, that figure ...
Illustration from Chambers Book of Days depicting a sow and her piglets being tried for the murder of a child. The trial allegedly took place in 1457, the mother being found guilty and the piglets acquitted. In legal history, an animal trial is a trial of a non-human animal. These trials were conducted in both secular or ecclesiastic courts.
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