What is a criminal action?
16. What is a civil action?
17. What is the result to the defendant in the former case, if he is
convicted?
18. What is the result to the defendant in the latter case, if the
decision is against him?
19. Is lying a crime or a sin? May it ever become a crime?
20. Are courts of any service to the vast numbers who are never
brought before them? Why?
21. May good citizens always keep out of the courts if they choose? Is
it their duty always to keep out of them?
22. Is there any aversion among people that you know to being brought
before the courts? Why?
23. What is the purpose of a jail? Is this purpose realized in fact?
24. Should a disturbance of a serious nature break out in your town,
whose immediate duty would it be to quell it? Suppose this duty should
prove too difficult to perform, then what?
25. What is the attitude of good citizenship towards officers who are
trying to enforce the laws? What is the attitude of good citizenship
if the laws are not satisfactory or if the officers are indiscreet in
enforcing them?
26. Suppose a man of property dies and leaves a will, what troubles
are possible about the disposal of his property? Suppose he leaves no
will, what troubles are possible? Whose duty is it to exercise control
over such matters and hold people up to legal and honourable conduct
in them?
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