12. Jefferson’s Notes of English Statutes, 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
Challenge belongs either to law of Pleadings or Appendix to Criminal law.Coroners. appendix to criminal law.
2From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Huntington, 30 December 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
...A great variety however of other Business, which would not Admit of being postponed, occasioned them to pretermit this til their next session. So that if the Offenders be within the cognisance of the criminal Law at all (which the Attorney seems to doubt) we have as yet no court wherein they may be prosecuted. A Civil action for Damages may be instituted; and if the sufferers shall think...
3From Thomas Jefferson to William Carmichael, 22 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...one chapter only of the revised code of the laws of that state which their assembly began to pass at their last session and will finish at their next. Pennsylvania is proposing a reformation of their criminal law; N.York of their whole code. I send you also the article ‘Etats Unis’ of the Encyclopedie Methodique which came out two or three days ago only. They have printed some copies of this...
4To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 December 1786 (Madison Papers)
...produced the first legislature who has had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions. I shall be glad when the revisal shall be got thro’. In the criminal law, the principle of retaliation, is much criticised
5From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 16 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
...who has had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions. I shall be glad when the revisal shall be got thro’. In the criminal law, the principle of retaliation is much criticised here, particularly in the case of Rape. They think the punishment indecent and unjustifiable. I should be for altering it, but for a different reason: that...
6From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, with Enclosure, 23 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
.... of May, and which I now send you. They were in like manner registered in beds of justice, on the same day nearly, in all the parliaments of the kingdom. By these ordinances 1. the criminal law is reformed, by abolishing Examination on the Sellette, which, like our holding up the hand at the bar, remained a stigma on the party tho’ innocent; by substituting an Oath, instead of Torture,...
7From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 9 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
...another to the nation. They have given them provincial assemblies which will be very perfect representations of the nation, and stand somewhat in the place of our state assemblies. They have reformed the criminal law, acknoleged the king cannot lay a new tax without the consent of the states general, and they will call the states general the next year. The object of this body when met will...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 8 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...steadily as a man could do who had to drag the court after him, and even to conceal from them the consequences of the measures he was leading them into. In his time the Criminal laws were reformed, provincial assemblies and states established in most of the provinces, the States general promised, and a solemn acknolegement made by the king that he could not impose a new tax without the...
9Pardon of James Medcalfe, 16 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
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10From Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 16 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
...conjectures of his being in Philadelphia, but no body can say they have seen him. Ohio seems a second time to have done her duty to her sister states. mr Giles has brought forward a bill to amend our criminal law; but however necessary, I have no idea that a bill containing a variety of modifications of the law can ever get through a house where there are an hundred lawyers.