TY - BOOK AU - Whitman, James Q., TI - The origins of reasonable doubt: theological roots of the criminal trial T2 - Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference SN - 9780300116007 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - KJC9601 .W45 2008 PY - 2007/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Burden of proof KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Europe KW - History KW - Evidence, Criminal KW - Judgments, Criminal KW - Religion and law N1 - Of factual proof and moral comfort -- The Christian judge and the taint of blood : the theology of killing in war and law -- The decline of the judicial ordeal : from God as witness to man as witness -- Salvation for the judge, damnation for the witnesses : the continent -- Salvation for the judge, damnation for the jury : England -- The crises of the seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century : the rule emerges UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0725/2007033384.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0812/2007033384-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0812/2007033384-d.html ER -