Civilians
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
civilians · some civilians
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Legal scholars/jurists of the civil-law tradition whose doctrines on torture and interrogation are reported and criticized.
that is, according to the civilians, questions which, with regard to the circumstances of the crime, are special when they should be general;
It is in these cases that torture should exercise its cruel power on the person of the accused, the witnesses, and even his whole family, as, with unfeeling indifference, some civilians have taught, who pretend to dictate laws to nations.
The Rights of War and Peace
Legal scholars whose classification of contracts is discussed
Distinctions of this kind are unknown to the law of nature, which gives simple agreements equal authority with those, that are included by civilians in the class of express contracts.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Non-military persons punished by Courts Martial on soldiers' complaints, illustrating the overreach of martial law.
The Courts Martial too did not content themselves with the punishment of soldiers, but also punished civilians upon the complaint of soldiers.