...Matthew Hale that, while rape is an easy charge to make, it is one which is 'hard to be proved and even harder to be defended by the party accused though never so innocent'. Despite being the cornerstone of sexist attitudes to rape which put the victim on trial rather than...

...Placitorum Coronae, voL1 (London: Nutt and Gosling, 1734), 635-36. The full statement read: "[Rape] is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to be...defended by the party accused, though never so innocent." 4 Seymour F. Harris, Harris's Principles of the Criminal Law, 7th ed. (London: Stevens and Haynes,...

...defendants against false accusations and wrongful convictions. In the (in)famous words of Lord Hale, rape "is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be...proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent."20 Although it is currently fashionable to dismiss worries about false accusations...

...colonists adopted the advice of English legal experts. Typical was Sir Matthew Hale's warning that rape was "an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent." He and other popular jurists suggested assessing a woman's veracity by indirect...

...explicitly warned to distrust women's allegations. Hale opined that 'it is an accusation easy to make and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused though "never so innocent" '.157 It is grimly ironic that in juridical discourse women's accusations of rape epitomised the lightness...

...Dating back to the seventeenth century, Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale stated that rape is a charge "easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho' never so innocent" (Hale 1971) . ' Consequently, it was very difficult for a woman to prove that...

...Formulierung von Chief Justice Matthew Haie aus dem Jahre 1680, die besagt, eine Vergewaltigungsklage sei »easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be detended by the party accused, tho' never so innocent.« Zitiert nach Torrey, When Will We Be Believed?,...

...famous eighteenth-century dictum to a jury: Rape "is an accusation easily to be made and once made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho [sic] never so innocent."127 We must, on the one hand, not dismiss out of hand the accusations...

...Australia routinely cited eighteenth-century English jurist Sir Matthew Hale, for the adage that rape "was an accusation easily to be made, and hard to be proved,...defended by the party accused, though never so innocent." 14 In deference to Lord Hale, special evidentiary rules were constructed for sexual assault trials,...

...requirement of Lord Hale's cautionary instruction to jurors (he was an influential English jurist) that rape is an "accusation easily to be made, and hard to be...proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused," was rejected. It must also be mentioned that before 1975 judicial interpretation by mostly male judges...