RT Book
T1 The dreadful word: speech crime and polite gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690-1776
T2 Studies in legal history
A1 Olbertson, Kristin A.
LA English
PP Cambridge New York Melbourne New Delhi Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/178805170X
AB Introduction -- A politer peace -- Sensibility -- Civility -- Credibility -- Cacophony -- Respectability.
AB "You are a Liar; you are no more fit for a Justice than the Devil! You are a Justice of a Fiend!", shouted yeoman Bildad Fowler at Justice Eldad Taylor in December of 1772. Several of the "good People" of Hampshire County witnessed Fowler's vituperative outburst at Justice Taylor, much to the disrepute of his "Office and Authority," as Taylor reported the incident to the next sitting of the county's Court of General Sessions of the Peace. In his report to the court, Taylor repeated Fowler's abusive statements, "all which Expressions," he told his fellow justices, he "apprehends to be Violations of those Rules of Decency and good Manners that every one ought to observe towards [each] of his Majesty's Justices of the peace [and] inconsistent with the good behavior the said Bildad ought to have maintained"--
NO Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Michigan, 2003) issued under title: Criminally impolite : speech transgressions & social order in Massachusetts, 1690-1776
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN KFM2967.5
SN 9781009098908
SN 9781009102865
K1 Libel and slander : Massachusetts : Criminal provisions : History : 18th century
K1 Massachusetts : Social life and customs : To 1775
K1 Neuengland : Massachusetts : Sprache : Kriminalisierung : Verurteilung : Strafe : Gesetz : Geschichte