10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRUMHEAD COURT-MARTIAL»
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1
A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
The original phrase, drumhead court-martial, was an early 19th-century term
denoting a military tribunal held around an up-turned drum to deal summarily
with offenses during military operations. The phrase quickly took on figurative
senses, ...
This raises the important question, Was Captain Vere's drumhead court martial
legally constituted and conducted, and was it authorized to impose the death
penalty? The historical development of the military and naval courts martial in ...
3
Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage
“One of the attorneys in United States v. Hoffa was convicted of contempt for
saying that the court was conducting a 'drum head court martial' [read 'drumhead
court-martial'] and 'a star chamber proceeding.'” Norman Dorsen & Leon ...
4
Law and Literature, Third Edition
... Vere would play no role, would unhinge the story by eliminating Vere's
responsibility for Billy's death. For Billy to receive a punishment unquestionably
lawful for a drumhead court-martial to impose—a lashing, say—would trivialize
the story.
5
A Treatise on
Martial Law: As Allowed by the Law of England, ...
It is to be observed, that it was not necessary that the strict rules of ordinary
military law should be adhered to (6), which require a general court-martial in a
case of life and death, and it might be what it was, a drumhead court-martial.
William Francis Finlason, 1866
6
Commentaries Upon
Martial Law, with Special Reference to Its ...
There, however, the charge was specific, and the evidence adduced in support of
it fully verified it (ibid). So in the case of Governor Wall (28 State Trials, 148), the
defence being a summary trial by drumhead court-martial, Mr. Law (the late ...
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 1867
7
From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed ...
Lowell immediately convened a drumhead court-martial and sentenced the man
to death. Executions for desertion were not uncommon during the Civil War, but it
was illegal under army regulations for a subordinate officer like Lowell to order ...
8
A handy dictionary of military terms
Formerly a drumhead court-martial signified a trial in which merely charge,
finding, and sentence were recorded, the drum-head serving as a writing-table.
The Author in 1854 was member of a court-martial in the Crimea conducted after
this ...
William Wallingford Knollys, 1873
9
Seán Moylan: Rebel Leader
Another flaw was the drumhead court-martial system, where suspects could be
executed without any proper safeguards. Indeed, the purpose of a drumhead
court-martial was primarily to ensure that the trial and execution went ahead
without ...
10
A Herman Melville Encyclopedia
... a hotheaded Union soldier twenty-four years of age who deserted, joined the
Confederate guerrillas under John Singleton Mosby,* was captured by Union
soldiers near Aldie, Virginia, and was tried by a drumhead court-martial, found
guilty, ...
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This short read (about a drumhead court-martial at sea) is a masterpiece on legal interpretation. 6. Publius, "The Federalist Papers," 1787-1788 ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
Online shaming: A lynch in the new city square
The social networks have turned into a drumhead court-martial. There is no need for proof. It doesn't end there. Channel 10 journalist Rafi ... «Ynetnews, May 15»
Bethel vet recalls Allied push into German interior
Irate, he called for a “drumhead court-martial” in which the German officers held responsible for failing to prevent the Allied capture of the bridge ... «Lewiston Sun Journal, Mar 15»
The Churchill Effect on 'The Walking Dead'
At one point, Churchill even advocated proceeding without so much as a drumhead court-martial. Instead, commanders would be instructed to ... «Bloomberg View, Oct 14»
Biogenesis: What did A-Rod and the other cheaters accomplish?
... possibility that baseball might use it to convene a drumhead court-martial and summarily execute one of the game's most unpopular players, ... «SB Nation, Jul 13»
Civil War history found in details
... strung up from the same tree after a drumhead court-martial and left to rot. Others, including another of Harmon's sons, Thomas, died in jail. «Knoxville News Sentinel, Nov 08»
Former MI chief Binyamin Gibli dies
In 1948 Gibli was one of three officers who convicted Meir Tobianski of espionage during the War of Independence in a drumhead court-martial ... «Ynetnews, Aug 08»
A review of two Trotsky biographies by Geoffrey Swain and Ian …
Well-established historical facts relating to Trotsky's life are subjected to the literary equivalent of a drumhead court-martial and declared to be ... «World Socialist Web Site, May 07»
