1I. Plan Agreed upon by the Committee of Revisors at Fredericksburg, [13 January 1777] (Jefferson Papers)
The Common Law not to be medled with, except where Alterations are necessary. The Statutes to be revised and digested, alterations proper for us to be made; the Diction, where obsolete or redundant, to be reformed; but otherwise to undergo as few Changes as possible. The Acts of the English Common-wealth to be examined. The Statutes to be divided into Periods: the Acts of Assembly, made on the...