Modalités de vote dans les tribunaux collégiaux. La diffusion des idées des Lumières en Europe au 19ème siècle

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Abstract:: In collegiate courts, individual judges’ votes need to be merged into a joint decision. Various procedures were used on the basis of the learned Roman and Canon law traditions. In the time of Enlightenment, French scholar-politicians realized how decisive these conventions can be for the overall decision of cases. Adrien Duport (1759-1798), who discussed the matter with Nicolas de Condorcet (1786-1794), made a ground-breaking proposal in the Assemblée nationale of 1790. His ideas were taken u...
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University of Oxford

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SSD

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Law

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Law Faculty

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Publisher:: Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies Publisher's website
Journal:: GLOSSAE: European Journal of Legal History Journal website
Volume:: 15
Pages:: 80-98
Publication date:: 2019-01-10
Acceptance date:: 2018-11-14
ISSN:: 2255-2707

Language:: French
Keywords:: Duport

jury

Enlightenment ‘group choice’

collegiate courts

Pierre François

Assemblée nationale

Adrien

FFR

judicial voting

Bellot
Pubs id:: 1089135
Local pid:: pubs:1089135
Deposit date:: 2020-02-26

Copyright holder:: Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies
Notes:: This is the publisher's version of the article. The final version is available online from the Institute for Social, Political and Legal Studies at: http://www.glossae.eu/glossae-15-2018-2/

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