Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 708
ates by the parole system underpolice supervision, and in 4 the policy of indeterminate sentences withinfixed limits and ages has been adopted. Bertillon and other methods of ADVANCE IN LAW AND JUSTICE 669 identification have greatly lessened crime in England. The law of deodand,whereby the valne… … HON. MELVILLE FULLER.(Chief Justice U. S. Supreme Court.) VI I. Capital Punishment. — In England, treason and felony, exceptpetty larceny and mayhem, were punishable with death. The fiction by whichmales who could read were supposed to be of the clergy saved first offenders,who escaped with…
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