Friday, May 24, 2024

A 17th-Century Grand Jury Exhortation

Just out, open access, in Law and History Review: A Grand Jury Exhortation, edited and introduced by Benjamin Keener, a JD candidate at Penn Law:

This essay brings to light a rare feature of the Stewart legal system. Grand jury charges remain understudied, partly for want of primary source materials. The brief historical and biographical sketches of the essay are appended by a unique and relevant artifact of the time: a preamble or exhortation to a grand jury charge, ostensibly delivered by a Justice of the King's Bench, John Dodderidge.

--Dan Ernst