Antedating of "Double Jeopardy"

[Fred Shapiro]

double jeopardy (OED 1910)

1862 Stephen Vincent Benet _A treatise on military law and the practice of
courts-martial_ (ed. 2) 103  This case disposeof the question of
_autrefois acquit_, or of _autrefois convict_ at common law, or of double
jeopardy of life and limb, for the same offence, in the amendments of the
constitution.


Fred Shapiro


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