Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 841 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-80306-9 Law stands at the center of modern American life. Since the 1950s, American historians have produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse account of law and legal institutions in American history. But even though our knowledge has increased enormously, few attempts have been made to draw its many parts together...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 923 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-80307-6 Law stands at the center of modern American life. Since the 1950s, American historians have produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse account of law and legal institutions in American history. But even though our knowledge has increased enormously, few attempts have been made to draw its many parts together...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 715 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-80305-2 Law stands at the center of modern American life. Since the 1950s, American historians have produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse account of law and legal institutions in American history. But even though our knowledge has increased enormously, few attempts have been made to draw its many parts together...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introduction Series). — ISBN: 978-0-19-976600-0 Law has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which legal decisions have been made-it has played a powerful role in shaping that society, though not always in positive ways. Eminent...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 343 p. Law in the United States, 2nd Edition, is a concise presentation of the salient elements of the American legal system designed mainly for jurists of civil law backgrounds. It focuses on those attributes of American law that are likely to be least familiar to jurists from other legal traditions such as American common...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 360 p. In this book Harvard law professor Richard H. Fallon, Jr., introduces nonlawyers to the workings of American Constitutional Law. He writes with clarity and vigor about leading constitutional doctrines and issues, including the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the guarantee of equal protection, rights to fair procedures, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 352 p. The Framers of the American Constitution were substantially influenced by ancient history and classical political theory, as exemplified by their education, the availability of classical readings, and their inculcation in classical republican values. This book explores how the Framing generation deployed classical learning to develop...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 398 p. Dagan’s book provides a dynamic and much needed account of the American law of restitution. The book reviews the existing doctrine, including the forthcoming (third) Restatement, using an ethical perspective to expose and examine critically the normative underpinnings of the core categories of restitution. Dagan also discusses some of...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 222 p. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is considered by many to be the most influential American jurist. The voluminous literature devoted to his writings and legal thought, however, is diverse and inconsistent. In this study, Frederic R. Kellogg follows Holmes’s intellectual path from his early writings through his judicial career.He offers a...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 306 p. This book is a comparative study of American legal development in the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on Illinois and Virginia, supported by observations from six additional states, the book traces the crucial formative moment in the development of an American system of common law in northern and southern courts. The process of legal...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 402 p. The modern jurisprudence of civil liberties and civil rights is best understood not as the outgrowth of an applied philosophical project involving the application of principles to facts, but as a developmental product of diverse, institutionalized currents of reformist political thought. This book demonstrates that rights of...
2nd Edition — ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 400 p. This up-to-date second-edition work will stimulate and clarify readers' thinking on the key issues surrounding guns in the United States - especially on the debate over gun control. • Provides a balanced view of the contemporary gun debate in the United States, explaining the positions of both gun rights proponents and advocates of...
Chicago: Illinois book exchange.1908. - 611 p. The adoption of the United States Constitution marked the opening of a new era in the World s legal history. Its underlying principle stands as the second great contribution by the Anglo - Saxon race to the progress of political science.
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 562 p. This book provides a critical examination of and reflection on the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations, arguably the most sweeping proposal for family law reform attempted in the U.S. over the last quarter century. The volume is a collaborativework of individuals from...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 1284 p. The Torture Papers consists of the so-called “torture memos” and reports that the U.S. government officials wrote to authorize and to document coercive interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib. This volume of documents presents for the first time a compilation of materials that prior to publication have...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 521 p. In the Age of Jackson, private enterprise set up shop in the American penal system. Working hand in glove with state government, by 1900 contractors in both the North and the South would go on to put more than half a million imprisoned men, women, and youth to hard, sweated toil for private gain. Held captive, stripped of their rights,...
Princeton University Press, 2000. — 219 p. Americans should not just tolerate dissent. They should encourage it. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Steven Shiffrin makes this case by arguing that dissent should be promoted because it lies at the heart of a core American value: free speech. He contends, however, that the country's major institutions--including the...
Albany: James B. Lion, State Printer, 1894. — 1132 p. From the year 1664 to the revolution. Charters to the Duke of New York, the comissions and instructions to colonial governors, the duke s laws, the laws of the dongan and leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775 inclusive.
Washington City: Published by Thompson and Homans, 1832. — 349 p. From 1633 to 1831, inclusive, with Appendix: Containing the Proceedings of the Congress of the Confederation and the Laws of Congress from 1800 to 1830 , on the same subject.
Richmond: Sold by Anderson Bros. 1891. - 776 p. The reader has been apprised by the preface to the first volume of this work, of how great a change has occured in its scope and extent, as compared with the original design; and that, as it was printed in instalments, as the health and leisure of the author enabled him to prepare it for the press.
Richmond: Sold by Anderson Bros., 1892. — 1228 p. The reader has been apprised by the preface to the first volume of this work, of how great a change has occured in its scope and extent, as compared with the original design; and that, as it was printed in instalments, as the health and leisure of the author enabled him to prepare it for the press.
New York – London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. — 389 p. To us Americans of to-day there has been vouchsafed what is at once a high duty and a high privilege. For we are able to share in the greatest enterprise since Independence-the re-forging of America. Clear and strong athwart the tumult of our present discords sounds the call to national unity. Firm and stanch is the...
Hartford: Printed by Case, Tiffany and Co., 1838. — 346 p. The first settlers of the New - Haven colony , and also of the colony of Connecticut, were emigrants from England. Soon after the arrival of the former, in 1638, finding themselves destitute of any laws as rules of actions to govern their small but intrepid band.
Albany: James B. Lion, State Printer, 1894. — 1152 p. From the year 1664 to the revolution. Charters to the Duke of New York, the comissions and instructions to colonial governors, the duke s laws, the laws of the dongan and leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775 inclusive.
Albany: James B. Lion, State Printer, 1894. — 1181 p. From the year 1664 to the revolution. Charters to the Duke of New York, the comissions and instructions to colonial governors, the duke s laws, the laws of the dongan and leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to 1775 inclusive. The twenty - first Assembly...
Albany: James B. Lion,State Printer.The author of the publication is not specified. 1894. - 1199 p. From the year 1664 to the revolution. Charters to the Duke of New York, the comissions and instructions to colonial governors, the duke s laws, the laws of the dongan and leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to...
Albany: James B. Lion,State Printer.The author of the publication is not specified. 1894. - 944 p. From the year 1664 to the revolution. Charters to the Duke of New York, the comissions and instructions to colonial governors, the duke s laws, the laws of the dongan and leisler assemblies, the charters of Albany and New York the acts of the colonial legislatures from 1691 to...
Simon & Schuster, 2020. — 352 p. A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled — and ready to put an adventurer in the White House. Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and...
Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken, 1803. — 158 p. In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania: March term 1800. Present, Shippen, Chief Justice. Yeates, Smith, and Brackenridge (1) Justice. In September term laft, a rule was obtained, on behalf of a number of persons, who had associated under the denomination of "The Holland Company" , (2) for the purchase and settlement of lands,...
New York: Martin B. Brown. 1881. — 232 p. Lodging the complaint. Examination before warrant. The Warrant. History of the examination after arrest. The examination as evidence in the trial, and the detention of the accused pending the hearing. Order and manner of proceeding on examination after arrest. Holding to answer (probable cause). Bail. Commitment. Fugitives from justice....
Sacramento: California state printing office. 1922. — 373 p. Decisions of the comissions and courts. Table of cases. Subject index of decision. List of cases not reported.
Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1854. — 221 p. Roger Williams (1603–1683) was a Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with American Indians, and he was one of the first abolitionists. Williams was expelled by the...
New York: Printed and published by E. Conrad. 1828. — 160 p. It will be proper, before the reader enters on the examination of thr contents of the subjoined pages, to understand, that in submitting them to public consideration, the writer does not aspire to enter the arena of Theological disputation ; and would not willingly or unnecessarily agitate any question, pertaining...
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1858. — 676 p. On the publication of a volume whose title indicates its connection with questions arising from the existence of negro slavery in the United States, a recollection of the number and variety of the existing works on that subject will suggest the propriety of some prefatory exposition of the author's point of view. Although the...
St. Paul: West Publishing Company. — 1078 p. Rules of Criminal Procedure. Rules Governing Title 28 section 2254 Cases. Rules Governing Title 28 section 2255 Proceedings. Rules for Trial of Misdemeanors Before U.S. Magistrates. Rules of Evidence. Rules of Appelate Procedure. Rules of Supreme Court of the United States. Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. Title 21, Chapter...
Detroit: John F. Eby. 1898. — 730 p. Cases against Circuit Judges, Superior Court Judges, Recorder s Court Judges, Probate Judges, Justice of the Peace, Police Justices and Circuit Court Commissioners, are cross-indexed under those titles; those against Circuit Judges and Probate Judges arranged by counties, and those against Superior and Recorder s Court Judges, by cities.
Chicago: T. H. Flood and Company, 1892. — 554 p. The law of mandamus has gradually grown up under the guidance of judicial discretion, which has produced such varying decisions from the numerous courts of last resort, that it is expedient from time to time to collect the law on this subject, both to assist the practicing attorney relative to the application of the writ in new...
San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1907. — 1086 p. This Code is an outgrowth of Desty's Federal Procedure, so well known to the professio, and an attempt to amplify and develop the features of that work upon which its long continned popularity has rested. Through the kindness of the publishers all the matter contained in the last edition of Desty was placed at the...
San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1907. — 1018 p. This Code is an outgrowth of Desty's Federal Procedure, so well known to the professio, and an attempt to amplify and develop the features of that work upon which its long continned popularity has rested. Through the kindness of the publishers all the matter contained in the last edition of Desty was placed at the...
San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1907. — 1086 p. This Code is an outgrowth of Desty's Federal Procedure, so well known to the professio, and an attempt to amplify and develop the features of that work upon which its long continned popularity has rested. Through the kindness of the publishers all the matter contained in the last edition of Desty was placed at the...
Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office. 2001. — 1186 p. Cases Adjudjed in the Supreme Court at October Term, 1999 Beginning of Term October 4, 1999, Through February 28, 2000 Table of Cases Reported: Note: All undesignated references herein to the United States Code are to the 1994 edition. Cases reported before page 801 are those decided with opinions of the Court or...
Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office. 2004. — 1155 p. Cases Adjudjed in the Supreme Court at October Term, 2002,March 5 Through May 27, 2003. Table of Cases Reported: Note: All undesignated references herein to the United States Code are to the 2000 edition. Cases reported before page 901 are those decided with opinions of the Court or decisions per curiam. Cases...
Albany: W. C. Little and Co. 1880. — 290 p. In this volume the author has sought to deliniate the principles governing the courts in administering relief by the Legal Remedies of Mandamus and Prohibition, Habeas Corpus, Certiorari and Quo Warranto. In the prosecution of this object, his labors have covered a field which has hitherto been but partially explored. It has been his...
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