Footnote 12, Chapter 1, of the author's Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories, which Princeton University Press published in 1988. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
Scottish law differed from the English. Although in Scotland there was considerable legal interest in the alterations in English law, Scottish juries could bring forth a verdict of "Not Proven" in both suicide and murder cases.
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