If thou let this man go, thou art not Cæsar's friend. - John xix. 12. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, BY A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN BAR. BOSTON: CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN. 1839. GRAD I BUHR Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1839, by CHARLES C. Little and JAMES BROWN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts, CAMBRIDGE PRESS : METCALF, TORRY, AND BALLOU. PREFACE. A FEW years ago, Mr. Joseph Salvador, a physician and a descendant of one of those Jewish families, whom the intolerance of Ferdinand the Catholic expelled, in a body, from Spain, about the year 1492 — published at Paris a learned work, entitled "Histoire des Institutions de Moïse et du Peuple Hebreu," or History of the Institutions of Moses and the Hebrew People; and in one chapter of his work he gives an account of the Administration of Justice among the Hebrews. To that chapter he has subjoined an account of the "Trial and Condemnation of Jesus;" in the course of which he expresses his opinion, that the trial, considered merely as a legal proceeding, was conformable to the Jewish laws. The author of the following little work, M. Dupin, who is one of the most eminent lawyers of the French Bar, immediately called in question the correctness of Mr. Salvador's opinion, and entered upon an analysis of this portion of his work, with a view to examine its soundness; and the present volume con |