JB/011/200/003

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A LETTER
TO THE
MEMBERS OF THE DIFFERENT CIRCUITS.

MR. ANTHONY HAMMOND presents his compliments
to the Members of the different Circuits, and begs to communicate
as follows:—

Ever since last January there has been printing, at the
Government press, by Mr. Peel's directions, a Series of
Documents styled the Criminal Code. This Code contains—
1. A digest of the Judicial Decisions; 2. A Consolidation
and Condensation of the Enactments; 3. The Opinions of
the Text Writers; 4. The Law of Scotland and of France;
5. Suggestions for the Amendment of each particular
Title of the Criminal Law; 6. A Paper, ascertaining
those General Principles that should govern in the formation
of a Code of Criminal Jurisprudence, and ascertaining,
by comparison, in what particulars the English system, first in
the Abstract, and then in relation to Existing Institutions, is
perfect or imperfect; 7. The Code itself, properly so called,
reducing the Common or unwritten law to Writing, and bringing
the Criminal Jurisprudence of This Country, Common

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Identifier: | JB/011/200/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1826	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	200	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles	a letter to the members of the different circuits
Category	printed material	Number of Pages	23
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	3897
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