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| + | The Georgia Colony was chartered as a private "trusteeship," with the English buggery statute apparently regarded as in force.<ref>{{GLA}}, p. 133, citing Horatio Marbury and Wm. H. Crawford, ed., ''Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia . . . 1755 to 1800 . . .'' (Savannah Georgia: Seymour, Woohopter & Stebbins, 1802), pp. 400-01; for the law of 1777 see same.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 21:55, 11 June 2008
Death for buggery
The Georgia Colony was chartered as a private "trusteeship," with the English buggery statute apparently regarded as in force.[1]
In 1777 Georgia legislators affirmed that the statutes of England (implicitly including its buggery law) were still in force, suggesting that this law was earlier considered operative.
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References
- ↑ Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (NY: Harper & Row, 1983), p. 133, citing Horatio Marbury and Wm. H. Crawford, ed., Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia . . . 1755 to 1800 . . . (Savannah Georgia: Seymour, Woohopter & Stebbins, 1802), pp. 400-01; for the law of 1777 see same.
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