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- Title
Fraud and Dishonesty in King's Bench and Star Chamber.
- Authors
Mares, Henry
- Abstract
This article considers various fraud-related misdemeanours in English criminal law. Based on extensive archival research, it discusses a set of prosecutions by the Attorneys-General in seventeenth-century England in Star Chamber and King’s Bench in order to understand the use and meaning of the concepts of fraud and dishonesty in the early modern period.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; CRIMINAL law; FRAUD laws; BRITISH law; ENGLAND. Court of Star Chamber; GREAT Britain. Court of King's Bench; HONESTY; COUNTERFEIT money; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); LAW; HISTORY
- Publication
American Journal of Legal History, 2019, Vol 59, Issue 2, p210
- ISSN
0002-9319
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ajlh/njz003