Pro Memorie - Volume 22, Issue 1, 2020

Summary The city of Nieuport (Belgian coast) keeps a valuable painting of ‘The Judgement of Cambyses’, a justice scene made by the local painter Vigor Boucquet. It survived the destruction of the city in World War I and II. It’s the city magistrate who offers the artwork to the city in 1671, probably in replacement of an older copy of Gerard David’s famous Judgement of Cambyses. Due to its large dimensions it must have m Read More

Summary Old Dutch law illustrates the dynamics in law between ‘own’ and ‘other’ law, between universality and particularity, private and public interests.fn1Dit opstel is een bewerking van de rede gehouden ter gelegenheid van de aanvaarding van de eerste wisselleerstoel Oudvaderlands recht, uitgesproken aan de Universiteit Gent op 6 december 2018. The stranger happened to be underprivileged in old Dutch substantiv Read More

Summary In the Scheldt department (Département de l’Escaut), cassation appeal for violation of law against criminal judgments by a Criminal Court was introduced in 1796 and could be made by both the convicted and the Public Prosecution Service. In total, 265 (16, 6%) of the 1595 criminal judgments were appealed in cassation by 373 criminal convicted persons and in 12 cases by the Public Prosecution Service. Of t Read More