Letter From Edward Livingston Esq To Roberts Vaux On The Advantages Of The Pennsylvania System Of

by Edward Livingston

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First edition

Philadelphia: Jesper Harding, printer, 1828. First edition, 8vo, pp. 15, 1 ; removed from binding; first and last leaves loose, but present. Originally published in the National Gazette of Philadelphia. American Imprints 33888. See Sabin 41617. In 1821, Livingston began preparing a new code of criminal law and procedure, afterwards known in Europe and America as the Livingston Code here modestly named the Pennsylvania Code . It was prepared in both French

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