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All who are interested in the study of the byways of literature will find this law classic entertaining and instructive. Some of the subjects of the essays in this delightful collection are: Bible law, sanctuaries, trials of animals, laws relating to Gypsies, fatal links, and post-mortem trials. One example of an oddity is the trial in 1600 of two brothers, then dead, for an attempt on the life of the king. The bodies were produced at the trial, and the sentence pronounced them guilty of treason. Their name, memory, and dignity were to be extinguished and their dead bodies "hanged, quartered, and gibbetted."
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