Aaron Burr: Motion to the Court to Limit Prosecution Evidence

Glossary

• arrest put a stop to
• aspect to interpretation or understanding of
• common law a system of law based primarily on past legal judgments rather than formal statutes passed by a legislative body
• counsel legal representatives
• denominated regarded as
• exploded common law of England an extended, overly interpreted version of the English common law
• Mr. Hay George Hay, chief prosecutor
• imperious intensely compelling
• Mr. Lee Charles Lee, a defense attorney
• levying bringing into action
• Mr. Martin Luther Martin, a defense attorney
• military array a gathering of armed men for the purpose of making war
• presently very soon
• species of constructive treason an attempt to define treason by far-fetched reasoning
• statutory law a legal system based primarily on laws formally passed by a legislative body
• tortured construed or interpreted according to strained logic
• very sickly season a time of year when people were likely to get sick
• Mr. Wickham John Wickham, a defense attorney