Further Antedating of "Cross-Examination"

Shapiro, Fred Fred.Shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu Aug 23 23:02:43 UTC 2007


cross-examination (OED 1827)

1725 _ Articles Exhibited by The Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses In Parliament Assembled, In The Name of Themselves, and of all the Commons of Great Britain, Against Thomas Earl of Macclesfield, In Maintenance of their Impeachment Against Him for High Crimes and Misdemeanors_ 205 (Making of Modern Law: Trials)  On his cross Examination he admitted a second Letter was sent for him.

Fred Shapiro

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