Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This is a chapter from A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse edited by Richard Ward. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. In this chapter, Zoe Dyndor uses data compiled for the Wellcome Trust funded project, Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse, to investigate the logic and rationale behind selecting gibbet locations in eighteenth-century England. She suggests that while gibbets were generally located near to the scene of the crime, there were a number of other factors that led to the selection of particular sites for cases of hanging in chains. Through a case study of smugglers hung in chains in the 1740s, Dyndor demonstrates that, in certain cases, gibbet locations were specifically selected to reflect the nature of the offence, the background of the offender or the circumstances of the crime.

social history --- criminal law

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The starting point for this project on the »Basic Questions of Tort Law« was the book written by Helmut Koziol, the »Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Germanic Perspective« (Sramek Verlag, 2012), a volume which presented an introduction into the law of torts from a Germanic perspective. Colleagues from seven countries were then invited to give critical responses to the ideas presented in the 2012 volume. The comparative law conclusions then attempt to pick up on the ideas expressed in the legal systems examined and to make them amenable for debate on the further development of the legal systems and their harmonisation. German Version: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:603

Tort law, damages, contract law, comparative law, unjust enrichment, criminal law, insurance law, social security law, injunctions, economic analysis, prescription, basic questions, aims of tort law. --- Schadenersatzrecht, Vertragsrecht, Rechtsvergleichung, Bereicherungsrecht, Strafrecht, Versicherungsrecht, Sozialversicherungsrecht, einstweilige Verfügungen, ökonomische Analysen, Verjährung, Grundfragen, Prinzipien des Schadenersatzrechts