BY THE SAME AUTHOR ANIMAL SYMBOLISM IN ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE. Fully illustrated. In one Vol. Crown 8vo. Price 9 s. EVOLUTIONAL ETHICS AND ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY. In one Vol. Crown 8vo. Price 9 s. LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN Execution of a Sow. THE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT OF ANIMALS By E. P. EVANS AUTHOR OF “ANIMAL SYMBOLISM IN ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE,” “EVOLUTIONAL ETHICS AND ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY,” ETC., ETC. Larger Image LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN MCMVI Copyright 1906 by Wil

The present volume is the result of the revision and expansion of two essays entitled “Bugs and Beasts before the Law,” and “Modern and Mediæval Punishment,” which appeared in The Atlantic Monthly , in August and September 1884. Since that date the author has collected a vast amount of additional material on the subject, which has also been discussed by other writers in several publications, the most noteworthy of which are Professor Karl von Amira’s Thierstrafen und Thierprocesse (Innsbruck, 18

BUGS AND BEASTS BEFORE THE LAW It is said that Bartholomew Chassenée, [1] a distinguished French jurist of the sixteenth century (born at Issy-l’Evêque in 1480), made his reputation at the bar as counsel for some rats, which had been put on trial before the ecclesiastical court of Autun on the charge of having feloniously eaten up and wantonly destroyed the barley-crop of that province. On complaint formally presented by the magistracy, the official or bishop’s vicar, who exercised jurisdiction

MEDIÆVAL AND MODERN PENOLOGY A striking and significant indication of the remarkable change that has come over the spirit of legislation, and more especially of criminal jurisprudence, in comparatively recent times, is the fact that whereas, a few generations ago, lawgivers and courts of justice still continued to treat brutes as men responsible for their misdeeds, and to punish them capitally as malefactors, the tendency now-a-days is to regard men as brutes, acting automatically or under an in

CONTAINING ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS   A TESTIMONIALES ET REASSUMPTUM Anno domini millesimo quingentesimo octuagesimo septimo et die decima tertia mensis aprilis comparuit in bancho actorum judicialium episcopatus Maurianne honestus vir Franciscus Ameneti scindicus et procurator procuratorioque nomine totius communitatis et parrochie Sancti Julliani qui in causa quam pretendunt reassumere prosequi aut de novo intentare coram reverendissimo domino Maurianne episcopo et principe seu reverendo domino gene

Abele von Lilienberg, Matthias : Metamorphosis Telae Judiciariae, Das ist: Seltsame Gerichts-Händel, etc.; 8th ed., Nürnberg, 1712. 1st ed., 1667. The funny incidents narrated in this work are cited as “queer judicial procedures” in Joh. Weidneri Apophthegmata, Part III. , No. 69. Abele was evidently a great humorist, and must have been a jolly member of the “Hochlöbl. Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft,” to which he belonged. Addosio, Carlo d’ : Bestie Delinquenti. Napoli, 1892. Agnel, Emile : Curios