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Extracts from the projected penal code : containing the fourth section of the thirteenth chapter, third book, entitled "Of offences which affect written contracts" : so many of the definitions contained in the first book as apply to terms employed in the said chapter : that part of the fourth book which contains the forms of proceeding : and of the fifth book which gives the rules of evidence, applicable exclusively to those offences : to which is prefixed an extract from a preliminary discourse, indicating the changes that have been made, and assigning the reasons for adopting them : the whole intended to exemplify the manner in which the projected code will be executed, by exhibiting in one view the several parts, which bear upon a single class of offences.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Livingston, Edward, 1764-1836, author.
- Series:
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal law--Louisiana.
- Criminal law.
- Louisiana.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (31 pages, 3 unnumbered pages).
- Manufacture:
- New-Orleans : Benj. Levy and Company, 1823.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1823]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- "New-Orleans, June 24, 1823. Sir, The extracts from the projected penal code, herewith delivered to you, were made in order to present at one view the bearing of its different parts on a single class of offences, and thus enable you to judge more readily of its effect. ... My object in making this communication is to request that you will examine the several articles ... point out such of the many errors I must have committed ... and suggest such alterations and improvements as may occur to you."--Page [3], 3rd count; signed: "Edward Livingston."
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 937012377
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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