Trial by Nisi Prius in the Court of King's Bench, Ireland, in the.

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Irish Civil Liberties Trial: Hevey v. Sirr (1802) Hevey, John, Plaintiff. Sirr, Henry Charles, [1764?-1841], Defendant. Trial by Nisi Prius in the Court of King's Bench, Ireland, in the Case Wherein Mr. John Hevey was Plaintiff and Charles Henry Sirr, Esq., was Defendant, on an Action for an Assault and False Imprisonment: This Trial was had Before the Right Honourable Arthur Lord Viscount Kilwarden, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and a Special Jury. Dublin : Printed by John Stockdale, 1802. [2], 61, [1] pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/4"; 22.2 x 13.3 cm). Bound in later brown library buckram, light shelfwear. Original wrappers worn, toned and lightly dampstained with some faint early ink annotations to front leaf. Bookplate of Geoffrey G. Briggs and small bookseller's ticket "Wildy&Sons/London "to front pastedown. A very good copy. $450. * Second edition. A landmark 1802 Irish civil trial that became a defining historical symbol for civil liberties, the rule of law and the fight against arbitrary military detention. John Hevey, a wealthy Dublin businessman, sued Charles Henry Sirr (the Town Major and chief of counter-insurgency police) for assault and false imprisonment. Major Sirr had used emergency powers from the 1798 Irish Rebellion to lock Hevey up under false accusations of treason. Held before Lord Chief Justice Kilwarden and a special jury, the trial became famous due to Hevey's lawyer, the legendary orator John Philpot Curran. Curran delivered a scathing speech exposing Major Sirr's abuse of power and tyranny. The jury ruled in favor of Hevey, awarding him financial damages. The decision was a monumental victory for civilian rights over unchecked military authority. The trial's impact reverberated far beyond Irish shores when transcripts of the case reached across the Atlantic to the United States. President Thomas Jefferson and his allies widely reprinted the trial details in American newspapers. They used the case as powerful political propaganda to warn American citizens about the dangers of standing armies, executive overreach and the suppression of constitutional freedoms. Our copy of this trial was owned by Sir Geoffrey Briggs [1914-1993], an English lawyer and judge who served as Chief Justice of Hong Kong and Brunei.

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Trial by Nisi Prius in the Court of King's Bench, Ireland, in the.
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Hevey, John; Sirr, Henry Charles
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1802
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