Part I. The Marian statues
The statutory texts
The bail statute
The committal statute
The statutory intent of Marian preliminary examination
The Dossier?
The prosecution
The prosecuting JP in the Jacobean chap-books
The parliamentary history of the Marian statutes
The bail statute
The committal statute
The origins of examination by the magistrates in England
Pre-Marian examination legislation
The magistrates' examination practice
The slaying of John Ganton
The institutions of criminal justice after the Marian statutes
The Marian trial court
The Marian juries
Part II. Inquisitionsprozess
Roman-canon inquisitionsprozess
The German empire before the Carolina
German criminal procedure before the Carolina
The origins of the Carolina
The Carolina
Substantive criminal law
The criminal procedure of the Carolina
The German history in comparative perspective
Criminal procedure in France
The medieval origins of French inquisitionsprozess
French criminal procedure in the sixteenth century
The ordinance of Villers-Cotterets
The French procedure in comparative perspective
Constituto Criminalis Carolina