A System of Penal Law for the State of LouisianaThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2010 - 758 Seiten The "Livingston Code" A comprehensive system of criminal law which, while not adopted in the United States, is still influential today because it is the first complete penal code built on Jeremy Bentham's principles of codification. From a penal standpoint the code is important as well not only in terms of its completeness and order, but from its perspective of the advancement of crime prevention over punishment. "[The Code]...will certainly arrange your name with the sages of antiquity."--Thomas Jefferson "You have done more in giving precision, specification, accuracy and moderation to the system of crimes and punishments 'than any other legislator of the age, and your name will go down to posterity with distinguished honor."--James Kent "You will be numbered among the men of this age who have deserved most and best of mankind." --Victor Hugo "[Edward Livingston is] . . . the first legal genius of modern times."--Henry Sumner Maine Edward Livingston [1764-1836] graduated from Princeton College at the age of 17. He was a senator from New York and later Louisiana. He served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1831-1833. |
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TITLE 16 | 188 |
INTRODUCTORY REPORT TO THE SYSTEM OF PENAL | 200 |
INTRODUCTORY REPORT TO THE CODE OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS | 226 |
INTRODUCTORY REPORT TO THE CODE OF EVIDENCE | 247 |
A SYSTEM OF PENAL | 305 |
INTRODUCTORY TITLE | 357 |
General Provisions | 365 |
Of Offences and Punishments | 375 |
Of offences affecting public property | 414 |
Of offences which affect persons in the exercise | 420 |
406 | 427 |
INTRODUCTORY TITLE | 473 |
TITLE 3 | 489 |
Of the mode of prosecuting offences | 501 |
512 | 555 |
Containing the forms to be used in all the judicial proceed | 563 |
TITLE 4 | 381 |
Of offences against the right of suffrage | 398 |
Of the form to be used in the proceedings authorized | 576 |
INTRODUCTORY TITLE | 643 |
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Seite 163 - That the printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature or any branch of government; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man: and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Seite 69 - It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid, that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original States and the people and States in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent...
Seite 404 - ... in a sum not less than two hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than two years.
Seite 55 - They are the depositaries of the laws; the living oracles, who must decide in all cases of doubt, and who are bound by an oath to decide according to the law of the land.
Seite 14 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Seite 429 - ... to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding six months...
Seite 536 - If the jury persist in finding an informal verdict, from which, however, it can be clearly understood, that their intention is to find in favor of the defendant, upon the issue, it must be entered in the terms in which it is found, and the court must give judgment of acquittal.
Seite 249 - No person or collection of persons, being one of those departments, shall exercise any power, properly belonging to either of the others, except in the instances hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.
Seite 389 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, and be liable to the party injured for all damages resulting therefrom.
Seite 435 - Code, in restricting legal abortions to those "procured or attempted by medical advice for the purpose of saving the life of the mother,