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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1 | Washington, George | List of Books at Mount Vernon, 1764 | ≈1764-01-01 | ...of but little worth; Henry Dagge Esqr. on Criminal Law 3 Vol. unbound.” Lund Washington wrote... | |
2 | Adams, John | Adams’ Notes of Authorities For the Preliminary … | 1770-10-24 | History of Criminal Law | |
3 | Paine, Robert Treat | Paine’s Minutes of the Preliminary Argument: 24 October … | 1770-10-24 | History of Criminal Law | |
4 | Adams, John | Adams’ Minutes of Josiah Quincy’s Opening for the … | 1770-11-29 | The Criminal Law extends itself to every Individual of the Community. It... | |
5 | Quincy, Josiah Jr. | Josiah Quincy’s Opening for the Defense: 29 November … | 1770-11-29 | system of criminal law. | |
6 | Adams, John | Adams’ Notes of Authorities: Suffolk Inferior Court … | ≈1771-01-01 | History of the Criminal Law of England, | |
7 | Hamilton, Alexander | Remarks on the Quebec Bill: Part One, [15 June 1775] | 1775-06-15 | ...whereas the certainty and lenity of the criminal law of England, and the benefits and... | |
8 | Mason, George | I. Plan Agreed upon by the Committee of Revisors at … | 1777-01-13 | Criminal Law....of the three first parts; to which is added the criminal Law, and Land-Law. | |
9 | Jefferson, Thomas | 2. Jefferson’s Notes of English Statutes, 1779 | ≈1779-01-01 | Challenge belongs either to law of Pleadings or Appendix to Criminal law....to criminal law... | |
10 | Committee of the Virginia Assembly | 20. A Bill Directing the Course of Descents, 18 June … | 1779-06-18 | ...: “As the law of Descents, and the criminal law fell of course within my portion, I... | |
11 | Committee of the Virginia Assembly | 64. A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments in … | 1779-06-18 | ...it would not too much enlarge the field of criminal law? The same may be questioned of 9.G.1... | |
12 | Jefferson, Thomas | Huntington, Samuel | From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Huntington, 30 December … | 1779-12-30 | ...Offenders be within the cognisance of the criminal Law at all (which the Attorney seems to... |
13 | Mazzei, Philip | Jefferson, Thomas | [To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Mazzei, 19 March 1780] | 1780-03-19 | ...’s proposals to the Assembly relative to criminal laws, liberty of religion &c.,... |
14 | Montfort de Prat, “comte” Julius de | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from “Comte” Julius de Montfort de … | 1780-08-19 | ...destroy me through civil law they decided to resort to criminal law. |
15 | Carleton, Guy | Washington, George | To George Washington from Guy Carleton, 20 June 1782 | 1782-06-20 | ...a purpose of establishing a Court of criminal Law in this Town, for reasons which... |
16 | Vaughan, Benjamin | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan, 9 August … | 1782-08-09 | ...Retaliation. It is, however a fact in criminal Law, that tho’ there are no bounds to... |
17 | Filangieri, Gaetano | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Gaetano Filangieri, 24 August … | 1782-08-24 | ...completed the third book, the one dealing with criminal law. It will take up two volumes, one... |
18 | Franklin, Benjamin | Filangieri, Gaetano | From Benjamin Franklin to Filangieri, 11 January 1783 | 1783-01-11 | ..., that you were proceeding to consider the criminal Laws. None have more need of Reformation.... |
19 | Vaughan, Benjamin | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin Vaughan and Samuel … | 1783-01-29 | ...which appear to relate to the subject of criminal laws, but which perhaps are not new to Dr... |
20 | Washington, Lund | Washington, George | To George Washington from Lund Washington, 23 July 1783 | 1783-07-23 | Henry Dagge Esqr. on Criminal Law 3 Vol: unbound. |
21 | Filangieri, Gaetano | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Gaetano Filangieri: Résumé … | 1783-10-27 | ...of my Works, which includes the second part of the Criminal Law. |
22 | Franklin, Benjamin | Strahan, William | From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 19 August … | 1784-08-19 | ...now live in affords a Proof, its whole Civil and Criminal Law Administration being done for |
23 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vaughan, Benjamin | From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 5 March … | 1785-03-05 | Thoughts on Executive Justice, with Respect to Our Criminal Laws, Particularly on the Circuits |
24 | Franklin, Benjamin | Vaughan, Benjamin | From Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March … | 1785-03-14 | ...the letter appears under the title “On the Criminal Laws, and the Practice of Privateering... |
25 | Dalton, Tristram | Adams, John | To John Adams from Tristram Dalton, 11 April 1785 | 1785-04-11 | ...did much business— A new Code of Criminal Laws passed—with many other public & private... |
26 | Jebb, John | Adams, John | To John Adams from John Jebb, 20 December 1785 | 1785-12-20 | Thoughts on Executive Justice, with Respect to Our Criminal Laws, Particularly on the Circuits |
27 | Jefferson, Thomas | Carmichael, William | From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 22 August … | 1786-08-22 | .... Pennsylvania is proposing a reformation of their criminal law; N.York of their whole code.... |
28 | Jefferson, Thomas | Madison, James | To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 December … | 1786-12-16 | ...the revisal shall be got thro’. In the criminal law, the principle of retaliation, is much... |
29 | Jefferson, Thomas | Madison, James | From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 16 December … | 1786-12-16 | ...shall be got thro’. In the criminal law, the principle of retaliation is much criticised... |
30 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Adams, John | To John Adams from the Marquis de Lafayette, 5 January … | 1787-01-05 | ...Protestants, freedom of trade, and the need to reform criminal law. He read |
31 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Adams, John | To John Adams from the Marquis de Lafayette, 30 May … | 1787-05-30 | ...the other for an Examination of the Criminal laws— Both were Carried Almost Unanimously,... |
32 | Madison, James | The Federalist Number 42, [22 January 1788] | 1788-01-22 | ...in each with every revision of its criminal laws. For the sake of certainty and... | |
33 | Adams, John Quincy | [May 1788] | ≈1788-05-01 | ...to acquire a competent knowledge of the criminal Law, before I get to the supreme Court... | |
34 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. | 1788-05-12 | ...to acquire a competent knowledge of the criminal Law, before I get to the supreme Court... | |
35 | Jefferson, Thomas | Jay, John | From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, with Enclosure, 23 … | 1788-05-23 | ...kingdom. By these ordinances 1. the criminal law is reformed, by abolishing Examination on the... |
36 | Hamilton, Alexander | New York Ratifying Convention. Remarks (Francis … | 1788-06-27 | ...the execution of the civil and criminal laws? Can the state governments become... | |
37 | Vaughan, Benjamin | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 2 August … | 1788-08-02 | ...-long interest in the reform of the criminal law. This, together with his standing among... |
38 | Jefferson, Thomas | Monroe, James | From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 9 August 1788 | 1788-08-09 | ...our state assemblies. They have reformed the criminal law, acknoleged the king cannot lay a... |
39 | Jefferson, Thomas | Price, Richard | From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 8 January 1789 | 1789-01-08 | ...them into. In his time the Criminal laws were reformed, provincial assemblies and... |
40 | Hollis, Thomas Brand | Adams, John | To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 6 June 1789 | 1789-06-06 | ...of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, for the Reform of Criminal Law in his Dominions |
41 | Washington, George | St. Clair, Arthur | From George Washington to Arthur St. Clair, 6 October … | 1789-10-06 | ...United States, that for want of criminal laws and magistrates among them to administer... |
42 | Hollis, Thomas Brand | Adams, John | To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 29 March 1790 | 1790-03-29 | & the D of Tuscanys code of criminal Law to induce some state in America to execute one or... |
43 | Purdie, Hugh | Enclosure XI: Affidavit of Hugh Purdie, [1 October … | 1790-10-01 | ...Young that if I had offended against the criminal law of England I might be accountable for... | |
44 | Wilson, James | Bingham, William | Enclosure II: James Wilson to William Bingham, 24 … | 1791-08-24 | ...and its Truth is of peculiar Importance, with Regard to criminal Law in particular. |
45 | Morris, Gouverneur | Washington, George | To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 27–31 … | ≈1791-12-27 | ...was much better, because at least the criminal Law was executed, not to mention the... |
46 | Pinckney, Charles | Washington, George | To George Washington from Charles Pinckney, 8 January … | 1792-01-08 | ...to the compleat administration of their criminal Laws that there should not be asylums... |
47 | Carr, Peter | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Carr, 28 May 1792 | 1792-05-28 | ...too metaphisical. In reading the code of English criminal law, I could not give my assent to... |
48 | Randolph, Edmund | Hamilton, Alexander | To Alexander Hamilton from Edmund Randolph, 8 September … | 1792-09-08 | ...we advert to the strictness, with which criminal Law is interpreted, and the latitude allowed... |
49 | Vaughan, Samuel, Jr. | Madison, James | To James Madison from Samuel Vaughan, Jr., 14 February … | 1794-02-14 | ...National Assembly who proposed reforms of the criminal law code. Fleeing into exile in 1792,... |
50 | Hening, William W. | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from William W. Hening, 24 July … | 1794-07-24 | ...Hale, Hawkins, and other writers on Criminal law, I have not adopted their precise... |