oyer and terminer salem

• Salem Witch Trials

... the defendant was then tried by the Court of Oyer and Terminer, an emergency tribunal established by...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Po–San

• The Records of the Salem Witch Hunt.

... arrangement; a timeline of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and Superior Court of Judicature; and...

• Reference and Research Book News
• Vol. 24 Nbr. 2, May 2009

• Anthony Georgevich, on His Own Behalf and on Behalf of the Class He Represents, Appellant, v. Judge Samuel Strauss, Leroy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Intervenor., 772 F.2d 1078 (3rd Cir. 1985)

... courts of quarter sessions and the courts of oyer and terminer of the several judicial districts of ...Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc., 422 U.S. 922, 929, 95 S.Ct. 2561, 2566,...

• Federal Circuits

• Social solidarity and the enforcement of morality revisited: some thoughts on H.L.A. Hart's critique of Durkheim.

Emile Durkheim L.A. Hart's criticism of Emile Durkheim's disintegration thesis of the relationship between law and morality ignores the thesis' ability to explain some social conduct, if not stand as a universal for all societies. Punishment in our society is sometimes carried out only to establish boundaries for shared morals, without a doubt. This, however, does not account for all punishment or all societies, leaving room to change the approach to justice and morality so that it more clearly reflects, rather than defines, morals.

...Salem developed a theocracy, a combine of state and reli... and discharged the special court of "Oyer and Terminer," most of the 150 then in custody wer...

• American Criminal Law Review
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 1, September 1994

• An inquiry into the right of criminal juries to determine the law in colonial America.

A review of the historical record belies the view that American criminal juries from Colonial times through 1830 had a generally-accepted "right" to judge the law in criminal trials. It appears criminal juries did not have such a right in mid-18th Century Georgia, 17th and early 18th-Century Maryland, or 18th Century Massachusetts. It does appear that criminal juries had some form of lawfinding right in Rhode Island throughout the colonial period. The lack of evidence as to the other states may indicate an absence of any sense that a right to judge the law existed.

..., had recently set up prerogative courts of oyer and terminer after the King disallowed a provincia... Jury finally given."(360) However, the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials prove that this law--which left ...

• Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
• Vol. 89 Nbr. 1, September 1998