1[May 1788] (Adams Papers)
...to acquire a competent knowledge of the criminal Law, before I get to the supreme Court...
212th. (Adams Papers)
...to acquire a competent knowledge of the criminal Law, before I get to the supreme Court...
3Charles Adams to John Adams, 7 February 1796 (Adams Papers)
...single “Act Making Alterations in the Criminal Law of This State and for Erecting State...
4Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith Shaw, 14 May 1801 (Adams Papers)
...Pennsylvania, in which he discussed “the criminal law of the United States and the duties...
5Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
...anything relative to torts outside of this area, or to criminal law.
History of the Criminal Law of England,
7Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
History of the Criminal Law
8Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
...followed the advice of the 17th-century criminal-law writer, Sir Matthew Hale, “to...Criminal Law
History of Criminal Law
10Paine’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...
12Josiah Quincy’s Opening for the Defense: 29 November 1770 (Adams Papers)
system of criminal law.
13To 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...
14To John Adams from John Jebb, 20 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
Thoughts on Executive Justice, with Respect to Our Criminal Laws, Particularly on the Circuits
15To 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
16To 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,...
17To 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
18To 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...
19From John Adams to Pennsylvania Legislature, 21 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
...owing to a want of national character or want of criminal laws, a remedy ought to be sought
20To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 11 July 1806 (Adams Papers)
system of Criminal law. Dr Franklin shares with him in that honor,—Although...
21To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 17 May 1807 (Adams Papers)
...penned by Prof. v. d. Keesel—are masterpieces of criminal Law procedures
22To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
offence was writing down the old sanguinary criminal law of our state, by which I made many old...
23From John Adams to Edward Livingston, 1 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
...to me only the act relative to the criminal laws of the State; your election to execute it...
24From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 9 December 1821 (Adams Papers)
...Hales history of the common law. In criminal law which I advise you to study to...
25Remarks 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...
26New 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...
27To 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...
28To Alexander Hamilton from Amanda Coe, 2 September 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
...entitled an Act making alterations in the criminal Law of this State and for erecting State...
29An Address to the Electors of the State of New-York, [21 March 1801] (Hamilton Papers)
“An Act making alterations in the Criminal law of this State, and for erecting State Prisons” (
30To 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.