The coroner's court, its uses and abuses : with suggestions for reform / by J. J. Dempsy.
- Dempsy, J. J.
- Date:
- 1859
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The coroner's court, its uses and abuses : with suggestions for reform / by J. J. Dempsy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![outset, considering that the office owes its existence to a monarch the sapiency of whose laws has never been questioned, and whose whole aim and object in their formation were his country’s welfare, his country’s happiness. ' Dating the authority of the Coroner’s Court from this wise and excellent monarch, without further comment upon the wisdom and discretion of its origin, we come down to the present period, and, analysing its uses and its abuses, consider the best means of placing it in such a position that it shall prove one of the most important branches of our criminal legislature and one of the greatest boons ever annexed to our social system. Reviewing impartially the important duties attached to this office, there cannot be a member of the community who doubts its usefulness, or who cannot see the great good that must accrue to the State, both in a pecuniary and a social point of view, by its being carried out in a strictly legal and searching manner. The check its jurisdiction has upon crime is extraordinary from the fact that the inquiries held by this Court are instituted in the immediate neighbourhood of the occurrence which calls forth the intervention of the law, and that the investigations are conducted by those well ac- quainted, as neighbours, or as residents in the locality, with the parties concerned, and with every circumstance in connexion with the case. In the formation of the Coroner’s Court what is found] A people’s Court!—a Court in which justice is administered by the people, guided by](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28268350_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
