History of Trial by Jury [Hardcover]

William Forsyth (Author), Appleton Morgan (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0963010689 | ISBN-13: 978-0963010681 | Publication Date: October 1994 | Edition: 2nd ed

Forsyth, William. History of Trial by Jury [Second edition]. Jersey City: Frederick D. Linn, [1875]. x, 388 pp. Reprinted 1994 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 96-14505. ISBN 0-9630106-8-9. Cloth. $65. First published in England in 1852, Forsyth's Trial by Jury is the first full-scale historical account of the rise and growth of the jury system in England. The American edition adds a number of notes, as well as making several corrections to American references.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 388 pages
• Publisher: Lawbook Exchange Ltd; 2nd ed edition (October 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963010689
• ISBN-13: 978-0963010681
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this OCR'd (and not edited) version, December 12, 2011

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Charles M. Fulton (Arlington, Virginia, United States) - See all my reviews

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If you are purchasing this book for scholarly use, or even for pleasure reading, do not purchase this version. As the publisher's description states, the book is created using optical character recognition ("OCR") software that scans the original work and then reproduces the work in a modern font. This work, however, uses and contains many Old English and other non-Latin characters and words, which is understandably beyond the ability OCR software to recognize. Unfortunately, this results in an unreadable version of this work. If your using this for scholarly research, it will results in an reliable version of the work. A scholarly reader can't be certain if the word "Fridbokh" is the Anglo-Saxon term for "frankpledge" or if it's a typo (A: it's a typo, the word should be "Fridborh").
To the publisher, it would be more helpful just to reprint the scanned copy of the last edition from the 1950's. Or to have someone edit the OCR'd version, but I understand that would be a long tedious process.