Treatise on Naval Courts Martial

Name: Treatise on Naval Courts Martial
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ISBN: 9781108044769

ISBN-10: 110804476X

ISBN-13: 9781108044769

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Authors: John Delafons

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Originally published in 1792, this work was revised (incorporating new material) and corrected for the 1805 edition, reissued here. As a ship's purser and occasional Judge Advocate, Delafons had considerable experience of advising in naval courts martial, including first-hand involvement for the defence in the trial of Peter Heywood, a midshipman on board H.M.S. Bounty during the mutiny of 1789. He intended this work to be a textbook for conducting judicial proceedings in the Royal Navy, and it is also now a fundamental text for historians and researchers in both the legal and naval history of a period of British maritime supremacy. Delafons covers the subjects of jurisdiction, evidence,…

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List price: $53.95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.144



Introductory preface



Of the nature of naval courts martial



Of particular places to which the jurisdiction of naval courts martial extends in regard to offences cognizable by them; and of such, when committed out of those local places or districts



Of courts of inquiry



Of persons subject and amenable to the jurisdiction of naval courts martial



Of officers sitting on courts martial, by virtue of any local rank, superior to their own, established rank, conformably to seniority from the date of their first commission



Of particular situations and circumstances which exempt and exclude officers, who by their seniority of rank are entitled to be members of a court martial



Of a judge advocate



Of arraignment and its incidents



Of the please of which a criminal may avail himself



Of the distinction between principals and accessaries, and the means of bringing offenders to trial



Of evidence and witnesses



Of an equality of voices on matters relative to trials by courts martial



Of giving a verdict or opinion, and passing sentence



Of the form of drawing out the sentence of a court martial



Of appeals



Enumeration of particulars in which courts martial in the land and sea service differ from each other


Appendix