''A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission for the Trial of the Rebels in the Year 1746, in the County of Surry; And of Other Crown Cases: to which are Added Discourses Upon a Few Branches of the Crown Law'', usually called simply ''Crown Law'' or ''Crown Cases'', is an influential treatise on the criminal law of England, written by
Sir Michael Foster (1689–1763), judge of the
King's Bench
The King's Bench (), or, during the reign of a female monarch, the Queen's Bench ('), refers to several contemporary and historical courts in some Commonwealth jurisdictions.
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and later edited by his nephew,
Michael Dodson
Michael Dodson (1732–1799) was an English lawyer and writer on religious subjects.
Life
The only son of Joseph Dodson, dissenting minister at Marlborough, Wiltshire, he was born there in September 1732. He was educated at Marlborough Grammar Sc ...
, barrister at law. It was first published in 1762. The third edition, edited by Dodson, and with an appendix containing new cases, was published in 1792 and seems to have been republished in 1809.
The book is divided into two sections. The first part, ''The Report'', usually called ''Crown Cases'', is a series of
law reports. The second part, ''The Discourses'', usually called ''Crown Law'' is essentially a textbook. ''The Report'' covers the trials of the participants in the second
Jacobite Rising of 1745
The Jacobite rising of 1745, also known as the Forty-five Rebellion or simply the '45 ( gd, Bliadhna Theàrlaich, , ), was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the Monarchy of Great Britain, British throne for his father, James Franci ...
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See also
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Woolmington v DPP
is a landmark Judicial functions of the House of Lords, House of Lords case, where the presumption of innocence was re-consolidated (for application across the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth).
In criminal law the case identifies the meta ...
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