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pious-perjury

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• 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
• 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
• 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