Observations On Military Law And The Constitution And Practice Of Courts Martial

Author : William C. De Hart
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330237007
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Observations on Military Law written by William C. De Hart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Observations on Military Law: And the Constitution and Practice of Courts Martial, With a Summary of the Law of Evidence, as Applicable to Militray Trials; Adapted to the Laws, Regulations and Customs of the Army and Navy of the United States Since the legal establishment of the Army and Navy of the United States, there has been no work produced, written for the express purpose, in conformity with the laws, regulations, and customs of the services, and intended as a guide for the administration of military justice. The works to which reference was generally made to assist the judgment of members of courts-martial, and to supply the want of experience which all felt to a greater or less degree, were the productions of a foreign country and intended for the government or direction of foreign military bodies. It is true, that those books, generally, if not always, of English origin, embodied the leading principles of administrative justice; and from the similarity or identity of me laws of the two countries in many respects, were suited to some extent to fulfil the wants which led to the study of them: - But still there was a deficiency - a deficiency which was a source of frequent error, and one which could only find a remedy in a rule, or a system of rules by which the practice of courts-martial in our service should be consistently regulated. The differences which necessarily exist, and which distinguish the practices of the American and British Services were not always discerned or appreciated by the young officer who resorted to English treatises on military jurisprudence to determine doubts or questions which arose in the course of his judicial duties; - and hence errors were frequent; the practice of courts-martial was both inconsistent and contradictory; and no settled interpretation was received of either the law or modes of procedure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.