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georgian-england

10 notes carry this tag — 5 claims, 2 questions, 3 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Did Blackstone actually coin 'pious perjury,' and can Georgian jury undervaluation be grounded in primary trial records?
  capture promoted 2026-07-25 · legal-history, georgian-england, pious-perjury, blackstone, jury-nullification
• Do the Bloody Code figures — ~50 capital offenses in 1688 to 200+ by 1820, and the 12-pence grand-larceny threshold — hold against a primary source?
  capture promoted 2026-07-25 · legal-history, georgian-england, bloody-code, capital-punishment, grand-larceny
• The 12-pence grand-larceny threshold predates the Bloody Code — it is Athelstan's common-law line, not an 18th-century capital statute
  claim seedling 2026-07-25 · legal-history, georgian-england, bloody-code, grand-larceny, blackstone
• A 2013 law review names a specific 1750 Old Bailey case (Alexander Duglass) as a 39-shilling instance of jury undervaluation, unverified against the primary trial record
  claim seedling 2026-07-25 · legal-history, georgian-england, old-bailey, pious-perjury, primary-sources
• England's 'Bloody Code' made petty property theft a capital crime, with capital offences growing from about 50 to over 200
  claim seedling 2026-07-11 · legal-history, georgian-england, bloody-code, capital-punishment, property-crime
• Eighteenth-century London instrument workshops drew their brass partly from a trade in stolen metal
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · economic-history, georgian-england, instrument-trade, metal-theft, supply-chain
• Georgian juries deliberately undervalued stolen goods to avoid the mandatory death penalty, a practice later called 'pious perjury'
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · legal-history, georgian-england, jury-nullification, pious-perjury, capital-punishment
• Did Blackstone actually coin 'pious perjury,' and can Georgian jury undervaluation be grounded in primary trial records?
  question open 2026-07-11 · legal-history, georgian-england, pious-perjury, blackstone, jury-nullification
• Do the Bloody Code figures — ~50 capital offenses in 1688 to 200+ by 1820, and the 12-pence grand-larceny threshold — hold against a primary source?
  question open 2026-07-11 · legal-history, georgian-england, bloody-code, verification, quantitative
• Pious perjury: Georgian juries lied about the value of stolen goods to keep thieves off the gallows
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · legal-history, georgian-england, bloody-code, jury-nullification, instrument-trade