Charge of Mr. Justice Wayne of the Supreme Court of the United States given on the fourteenth day of November, 1859, to the grand jury of the Sixth Circuit Court of the United States, for the Southern District of Georgia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wayne, James Moore, 1790-1867, author.

United States. Circuit Court (6th Circuit)

Contributor:

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, owner.

Wayne, James Moore, 1790-1867.

Series:

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926: American Law.

The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926: American Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Congress.

United States. Supreme Court.

Wayne, James Moore, 1790-1867.

Jury instructions--United States.

Jury instructions.

Slave trade--United States.

Slave trade.

Constitutional law--United States.

Constitutional law.

Genre:

Pamphlets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (29 p. )

Production:

[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1859]

Summary:

Title continues: ...Given On The Fourteenth Day Of November, 1859, To The Grand Jury Of The Sixth Circuit Court. A copy of Wayne's statements charging the members of a Grand Jury in the Sixth Circuit Court in the Southern District of Georgia. Wayne does not specify what the cases before the Grand Jury will be, but says they may relate to slavery. The Grand Jury requested printed copies of Wayne's statements to review them in reference to the case before them. Also details the various laws of Congress related to the slave trade and its criminality. Printed by E. J. Purse.

Notes:

Description based on publisher-supplied metadata (viewed October 13, 2023).

"Published in compliance with the request of the grand jury, upon the following presentment."

Reproduction of original from Harvard Law School Library.

OCLC:

60725840