The influence of the coroner's inquisition on the common law and the medico legal system

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" The influence of the coroner's inquisition on the common law and the medico legal system "
McHugh, Mary Patricia

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1096728
Doc. No	:	TLets480853
Main Entry	:	McHugh, Mary Patricia
Title & Author	:	The influence of the coroner's inquisition on the common law and the medico legal system\ McHugh, Mary Patricia
College	:	University of London
Date	:	1976
student score	:	1976
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	Inquisitions held by various authoritative bodies from the Crown in the eleventh century to the Board of Trade or the local Borough Council in the twentieth, have existed for many and different reasons. In contemporary society any commission of inquiry can be termed an inquisition, whether its purpose is a retrospective assessment or a prospective modification of established policy. The inquisitorial theory is the searching out and correcting of error on the basis that there is safety in the truth. As a legal principle it is the demarcation line between the ancient prophetic laws of the oracles and the scientific legal systems of modern civilisations. William the Conqueror introduced the "Inquisitio" into England as one of the measures of facilitating the integration of local administration with the centralisation of Royal Justice. Initially, its main function was of a fiscal and political nature but the institution was not allowed to suffer the corruption and misuse of its process, as was its continental counterpart following the Lateran and Toulouse Councils in the thirteenth century. Given expression in the Coroner's inquest it was used mýin1y in the investigation of unnatural death or c-m y matter ordered by the King's writ. From the onset it acquired a significant role in the developing common law when inquisition records were used by the Justices in Eyre for the conducting their business. The Coroner's inquiry exists in all parts of the world where the common law took root, but its purpose has changed; although on occasion an inquest may bring to light a secret homicide or contribute to the preferment of a criminal charge; its duty is to provide a forensic forum for the sifting of medical, legal and scientific issues in the prevention of untimely death and the promotion of a better quality of life.
Subject	:	History
Added Entry	:	University of London