[4CJ]

Good catch. I'll have to check into what I can find. Their phraseology is quite catching.

A good lawyer would point out that the law in question was enacted ex post facto, a constitutional violation. Davis had numerous lawyers willing to aid him. Including a few Northern ones ;o)

[nolu chan]

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/burr/burrindictment.html

In large part, the language of the indictment of Jefferson Davis is boilerplate lifted directly from the indictment of Aaron Burr.

It is possible the language of the Burr indictment is, itself, boilerplate lifted from some earlier British source.