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1 online resource (141 pages) |
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In Europe as early as the thirteenth century and as late as the sixteenth century, non-human animals including rats, pigs, horses, and dogs were tried for criminal activities. Such trials were not sacrificial in nature; neither were they mock trials for entertainment. Rather, such trials were undertaken with great seriousness with appointed legal counsel for prosecution and defense, at some times before a judge and at other times before a judge and jury. This phenomenon would strike modern sensibilities are being somewhere between eccentric and completely mad, and no one today believes that an. |
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Trials -- Europe.
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Trials. |
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Europe. |
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Animals, Prosecution and punishment of -- History.
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Animals, Prosecution and punishment of. |
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History. |
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Animals -- Law and legislation -- Europe -- History.
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Animals -- Law and legislation. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: 9780773430815 |
ISBN |
9780773418516 (electronic book) |
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0773418512 (electronic book) |
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