1List of Books at Mount Vernon, 1764 (Washington Papers)
...of but little worth; Henry Dagge Esqr. on Criminal Law 3 Vol. unbound.” Lund Washington wrote...
History of Criminal Law
3Paine’s Minutes of the Preliminary Argument: 24 October 1770 (Adams Papers)
History of Criminal Law
The Criminal Law extends itself to every Individual of the Community. It...
5Josiah Quincy’s Opening for the Defense: 29 November 1770 (Adams Papers)
system of criminal law.
History of the Criminal Law of England,
7Remarks on the Quebec Bill: Part One, [15 June 1775] (Hamilton Papers)
...whereas the certainty and lenity of the criminal law of England, and the benefits and...
8I. Plan Agreed upon by the Committee of Revisors at Fredericksburg, [13 January 1777] (Jefferson Papers)
Criminal Law....of the three first parts; to which is added the criminal Law, and Land-Law.
92. Jefferson’s Notes of English Statutes, 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Challenge belongs either to law of Pleadings or Appendix to Criminal law....to criminal law...
1020. A Bill Directing the Course of Descents, 18 June 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
...: “As the law of Descents, and the criminal law fell of course within my portion, I...
1164. A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments in Cases Heretofore Capital, 18 June 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
...it would not too much enlarge the field of criminal law? The same may be questioned of 9.G.1...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Huntington, 30 December 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
...Offenders be within the cognisance of the criminal Law at all (which the Attorney seems to...
13[To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Mazzei, 19 March 1780] (Jefferson Papers)
...’s proposals to the Assembly relative to criminal laws, liberty of religion &c.,...
14To Benjamin Franklin from “Comte” Julius de Montfort de Prat: Two Letters, 19 August 1780: résumés (Franklin Papers)
...destroy me through civil law they decided to resort to criminal law.
15To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 20 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
...a purpose of establishing a Court of criminal Law in this Town, for reasons which...
16To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 9 August 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...Retaliation. It is, however a fact in criminal Law, that tho’ there are no bounds to...
17To Benjamin Franklin from Gaetano Filangieri, 24 August 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...completed the third book, the one dealing with criminal law. It will take up two volumes, one...
18From Benjamin Franklin to Filangieri, 11 January 1783 (Franklin Papers)
..., that you were proceeding to consider the criminal Laws. None have more need of Reformation....
19To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan and Samuel Vaughan, Jr., 29 January 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...which appear to relate to the subject of criminal laws, but which perhaps are not new to Dr...
20To George Washington from Lund Washington, 23 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
Henry Dagge Esqr. on Criminal Law 3 Vol: unbound.
21To Benjamin Franklin from Gaetano Filangieri: Résumé, 27 October 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...of my Works, which includes the second part of the Criminal Law.
22From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 19 August 1784 (Franklin Papers)
...now live in affords a Proof, its whole Civil and Criminal Law Administration being done for
23From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 5 March 1785 (Franklin Papers)
Thoughts on Executive Justice, with Respect to Our Criminal Laws, Particularly on the Circuits
24From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785 (Franklin Papers)
...the letter appears under the title “On the Criminal Laws, and the Practice of Privateering...
25To John Adams from Tristram Dalton, 11 April 1785 (Adams Papers)
...did much business— A new Code of Criminal Laws passed—with many other public & private...
26To John Adams from John Jebb, 20 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
Thoughts on Executive Justice, with Respect to Our Criminal Laws, Particularly on the Circuits
27From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 22 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
.... Pennsylvania is proposing a reformation of their criminal law; N.York of their whole code....
28To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 December 1786 (Madison Papers)
...the revisal shall be got thro’. In the criminal law, the principle of retaliation, is much...
29From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 16 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...shall be got thro’. In the criminal law, the principle of retaliation is much criticised...
30To John Adams from the Marquis de Lafayette, 5 January 1787 (Adams Papers)
...Protestants, freedom of trade, and the need to reform criminal law. He read
31To John Adams from the Marquis de Lafayette, 30 May 1787 (Adams Papers)
...the other for an Examination of the Criminal laws— Both were Carried Almost Unanimously,...
32The Federalist Number 42, [22 January 1788] (Madison Papers)
...in each with every revision of its criminal laws. For the sake of certainty and...
33[May 1788] (Adams Papers)
...to acquire a competent knowledge of the criminal Law, before I get to the supreme Court...
3412th. (Adams Papers)
...to acquire a competent knowledge of the criminal Law, before I get to the supreme Court...
35From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, with Enclosure, 23 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...kingdom. By these ordinances 1. the criminal law is reformed, by abolishing Examination on the...
36New York Ratifying Convention. Remarks (Francis Childs’s Version), [27 June 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
...the execution of the civil and criminal laws? Can the state governments become...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 2 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...-long interest in the reform of the criminal law. This, together with his standing among...
38From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 9 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...our state assemblies. They have reformed the criminal law, acknoleged the king cannot lay a...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 8 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...them into. In his time the Criminal laws were reformed, provincial assemblies and...
40To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 6 June 1789 (Adams Papers)
...of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, for the Reform of Criminal Law in his Dominions
41From George Washington to Arthur St. Clair, 6 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
...United States, that for want of criminal laws and magistrates among them to administer...
42To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 29 March 1790 (Adams Papers)
& the D of Tuscanys code of criminal Law to induce some state in America to execute one or...
43Enclosure XI: Affidavit of Hugh Purdie, [1 October 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
...Young that if I had offended against the criminal law of England I might be accountable for...
44Enclosure II: James Wilson to William Bingham, 24 August 1791 (Washington Papers)
...and its Truth is of peculiar Importance, with Regard to criminal Law in particular.
45To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 27–31 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
...was much better, because at least the criminal Law was executed, not to mention the...
46To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 8 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
...to the compleat administration of their criminal Laws that there should not be asylums...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 28 May 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
...too metaphisical. In reading the code of English criminal law, I could not give my assent to...
48To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 8 September 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
...we advert to the strictness, with which criminal Law is interpreted, and the latitude allowed...
49To James Madison from Samuel Vaughan, Jr., 14 February 1794 (Madison Papers)
...National Assembly who proposed reforms of the criminal law code. Fleeing into exile in 1792,...
50To Thomas Jefferson from William W. Hening, 24 July 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
...Hale, Hawkins, and other writers on Criminal law, I have not adopted their precise...