 | Mary E. Odem, Jody Clay-Warner - 1998 - Страниц: 316
...on rape is the quintessential embodiment of Western society's ambivalence toward rape. "It is true, rape is a most detestable crime, and therefore ought...harder to be defended by the party accused, though ever so innocent" (Hale, 1680, p. 635). This ambivalence in the attitudes of the law and those who... | |
 | John G. Bellamy - 1998 - Страниц: 218
...to set down what lawyers for many centuries must have felt about the trial of rape. It is, he said, 'an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused tho never so innocent'. It was for these reasons he advocated the checking, in modern detective style,... | |
 | Julian Davison, Bruce Granquist - 1999 - Страниц: 1302
...of the famous saying of Sir Mathew Hale regarding the 594 NM 85 P.2d NM 595 crime of rape, that : " 'It must be remembered, that it is an accusation easily...defended by the party accused, though never so innocent;' and that courts should 'be the more cautious upon trials of offenses of this nature, wherein the court... | |
 | Flora Davis - 1999 - Страниц: 706
...quoted for hundreds of years afterward by attorneys, judges, and legal scholars. Hale wrote, "Rape is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be...proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent." Until the 1970s, it was standard procedure in the United States for judges... | |
 | Keith Burgess-Jackson - 1999 - Страниц: 323
...(citations omitted). 44. Ibid., pp. *214-15. Hale's actual words were "it must be remembered, that [rape] is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be...proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent." Hale, Pleas of the Crown, vol. 1, p. '635. 45. Pollock and Maitland, History... | |
 | Lisa M. Cuklanz - 2000 - Страниц: 204
...culture for hundreds of years, traceable at least to Sir Matthew Hale's famous pronouncement that rape "is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be...proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent" (Hale f1650] 1847, 635). Hale's original concern was that if a couple were caught... | |
 | Darlene Clark Hine, Earnestine L. Jenkins - 1999 - Страниц: 630
...seventeenth-century English jurist Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale, the court sympathized that "rape is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be...proved and harder to be defended by the party accused. . . ." The high court vacated the execution decree and ordered a new trial.45 Although not all cases... | |
 | Anthony Heaton-Armstrong, Eric Shepherd, David Wolchover - 1999 - Страниц: 392
...an unreliable account being given. CHAPTER EIGHT Complaints of sexual misconduct Janet Boakes It ù an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho' never so innocent (Sir Matthew Hale). 8.1 INTRODUCTION Allegations of sexual misconduct are notorious... | |
 | Carol Groneman - 2001 - Страниц: 274
...back as the seventeenth century, the Lord Chief Justice of England, Matthew Hale, had declared: "Rape is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be...harder to be defended by the party accused, though ever so innocent."18 As recently as the 1980s, many states still required judges to instruct the jury... | |
 | Isabel Pérez Molina - 2001 - Страниц: 244
...Courts to easily avoid sentencing. Seventeenth-century English jurist Lord Matthew Hale wrote: "rape is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be...proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent". Catalan jurist Joan Pere Blaming the victim begins with casting doubts on the... | |
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It is true that rape is a most detestable crime, and therefore ought severely and impartially to be punished with death; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved and harder to be defended by the party... 
