caa a22 4500 388082364 CHVBK 20180307125220.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/744380 doi S0738248000011640 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/744380 Landau Norma Indictment for Fun and Profit: A Prosecutor's Reward at Eighteenth-Century Quarter Sessions [Elektronische Daten] [Norma Landau] In the early modern era, the business of England's criminal courts was founded upon charges brought and prosecuted by private individuals. And, as the English realized, private prosecutors posed a problem: how could the English ensure that private individuals would spend their own time and their own money in prosecuting an offender who had committed an offense against the peace of the realm? Parliament's solution was to proffer the carrot: sixteenth-century statute decreed that his prosecution of the thief was, in itself, action sufficient for the owner of stolen goods to recover those goods, while from 1692, statutes offered rewards to successful prosecutors of highway robbers, burglars, coiners, and other specified offenders. In contrast, England's magistrates wielded the stick, binding a plaintiff bringing an accusation of felony to prosecute an indictment against the alleged felon. As a result, private prosecutors of major offenses were both bribed and compelled to prosecute. Private prosecutors of more minor offenses were neither bribed nor compelled to prosecute, and yet they did, nonetheless, prosecute indictments. Why? Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 1999 Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/3(1999), 507-536 0738-2480 17:3<507 1999 17 LHR https://doi.org/10.2307/744380 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/744380 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Landau Norma NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/3(1999), 507-536 0738-2480 17:3<507 1999 17 LHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge