A History Of The Law The Courts And The Lawyers Of Maine

Author : William Willis
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Courts
ISBN : 9781584776284

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A History of the Law, the Courts, and the Lawyers of Maine by William Willis Pdf

Willis, William. A History of the Law, The Courts, and The Lawyers of Maine, From Its First Colonization to the Early Part of the Present Century. Portland, Bailey & Noyes, 1863. iv, [ii], [v]-viii, [2], [9]-712 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 2005. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-628-4. ISBN-10: 1-58477-628-5 Cloth. $95.* Early histories by local lawyers, such as this one, are often quite valuable because they were written by people who were steeped in local traditions and had access to practitioners of the preceding generation, who were invaluable sources of fact and anecdote about their generation and the generation that preceded them. Written during the early 1860s, this book draws on interviews with people who practiced before Maine was a state and could recall anecdotes from the colonial period. Along with historical chapters and biographical sketches of such lawyers as Simon Greenleaf and William B. Sewall, the book has information about "social usages of the bar," popular law books and how lawyers from other colonies were treated.

Author : William 1794-1870 Willis
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019760982

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A History of the Law, the Courts, and the Lawyers of Maine, From Its First Colonization to the Early Part of the Present Century by William 1794-1870 Willis Pdf

Published in 1907, this historical treatise is a seminal work on the legal history of Maine. Written by William Willis, a prominent attorney and historian, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal system in Maine from the colonial period to the early 20th century. It covers the development of common law, the establishment of courts, and the role of lawyers in shaping the law. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of American law. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044049682206

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Ancient Law by Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE Pdf

Author : Henry Sumner Maine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : HARVARD:HB9JU8

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Ancient Law by Henry Sumner Maine Pdf

Author : Raymond Cocks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0521524962

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Sir Henry Maine by Raymond Cocks Pdf

A demonstration of the contemporary context and significance of Maine's approach to the law.

Author : Henry Sumner Maine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044399959

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Ancient Law : Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas by Henry Sumner Maine Pdf

Author : Sir William Searle Holdsworth
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780963010698

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The Historians of Anglo-American Law by Sir William Searle Holdsworth Pdf

Beginning with Coke and Selden, Holdsworth surveys the work of the great practitioners of Anglo-American legal history. Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. 175 pp. "In this reprint of lectures delivered by the learned author in the United States of America, the course of the literature of Anglo-American legal history is portrayed in an illuminating fashion. Pursuing a chronological sequence, the lectures survey the effect of the historical tradition of the common lawyers before legal history began to be written, in which class the learned author puts the work of Coke, passing on to the more historical work of the later authors of whom the first appears to be Selden, while the last include the names of several living writers, both English and American. (...) [N]o one interested in the growth of Anglo-American law can fail to read with pleasure and profit this stimulating treatment of the development of legal history." --Law Quarterly Review 44: 392. WILLIAM S. HOLDSWORTH [1871-1944] was a professor at the University of Cambridge from 1903-1908 and Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford from 1922-1944. He is well-known for his monumental A History of English Law (1903-1966) and other works, such as Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian (1929) and Some Makers of English Law (1938).

Author : Julius J. Marke
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 1418 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781886363915

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A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University by Julius J. Marke Pdf

Marke, Julius J., Editor. A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University With Selected Annotations. New York: The Law Center of New York University, 1953. xxxi, 1372 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-19939. ISBN 1-886363-91-9. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of the massive, well-annotated catalogue compiled by the librarian of the School of Law at New York University. Classifies approximately 15,000 works excluding foreign law, by Sources of the Law, History of Law and its Institutions, Public and Private Law, Comparative Law, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Political and Economic Theory, Trials, Biography, Law and Literature, Periodicals and Serials and Reference Material. With a thorough subject and author index. This reference volume will be of continuous value to the legal scholar and bibliographer, due not only to the works included but to the authoritative annotations, often citing more than one source. Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies 3461.

Author : Abby Chandler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317107798

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Law and Sexual Misconduct in New England, 1650-1750 by Abby Chandler Pdf

Having arriving in the Province of Maine in 1641 with a brief to create both government and law for the fledgling colony, Thomas Gorges later recorded his policy as having ’steared as neere as we could to the course of Ingland’. Over the course of the next century the various colonial administrations all consciously measured their laws against that of England, whether their intention was imitation of or conscious opposition to, established English legal system. In order to trace the shifting and contested relationships between colonial laws and English laws, this book focuses on the prosecution of sexual misconduct. All crimes can threaten orderly society but no other crime posed quite the same long term implications as illicit sex resulting in the birth of illegitimate children who became their own social challenges. Sexual misconduct was, consequently, a major concern for early modern leaders, making it a particularly fruitful subject for studying the complex relationship between laws in England and laws in the English colonies. Political and ecclesiastical leaders create laws to coerce people to behave in a certain fashion and to convey wider messages about the societies they govern. When those same laws are broken, lawbreakers must be tried and punished by a means intended to serve as a warning to other would-be lawbreakers. In this book the two-part analysis of changing sexual misconduct laws and the resulting trial depositions highlights the ways in which ordinary New England colonists across New England both interacted with and responded to the growing Anglicization of their legal systems and makes the argument that these men and women saw themselves as taking part in a much larger process.

Author : H J S Maine
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412817233

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Ancient Law by H J S Maine Pdf

Author : John Clay Smith (Jr.)
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 0812216857

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Emancipation by John Clay Smith (Jr.) Pdf

"Emancipation is an important and impressive work; one cannot read it without being inspired by the legal acumen, creativity, and resiliency these pioneer lawyers displayed. . . . It should be read by everyone interested in understanding the road African-Americans have traveled and the challenges that lie ahead."—From the Foreword, by Justice Thurgood Marshall

Author : Henry Sumner Maine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108044943

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Ancient Law by Henry Sumner Maine Pdf

This hugely influential book of 1861 remains a landmark work in the intellectual history of jurisprudence.

Author : Michael Chiorazzi,Marguerite Most
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1539 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136766022

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Prestatehood Legal Materials by Michael Chiorazzi,Marguerite Most Pdf

Explore the controversial legal history of the formation of the United States Prestatehood Legal Materials is your one-stop guide to the history and development of law in the U.S. and the change from territory to statehood. Unprecedented in its coverage of territorial government, this book identifies a wide range of available resources from each state to reveal the underlying legal principles that helped form the United States. In this unique publication, a state expert compiles each chapter using his or her own style, culminating in a diverse sourcebook that is interesting as well as informative. In Prestatehood Legal Materials, you will find bibliographies, references, and discussion on a varied list of source materials, including: state codes drafted by Congress county, state, and national archives journals and digests state and federal reports, citations, surveys, and studies books, manuscripts, papers, speeches, and theses town and city records and documents Web sites to help your search for more information and more Prestatehood Legal Materials provides you with brief overviews of state histories from colonization to acceptance into the United States. In this book, you will see how foreign countries controlled the laws of these territories and how these states eventually broke away to govern themselves. The text also covers the legal issues with Native Americans, inter-state and the Mexico and Canadian borders, and the development of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government. This guide focuses on materials that are readily available to historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and researchers. Resources that assist in locating not-so-easily accessible materials are also covered. Special sections focus on the legal resources of colonial New York City and Washington, DC—which is still technically in its prestatehood stage. Due to the enormity of this project, the editor of Prestatehood Legal Materials created a Web page where updates, corrections, additions and more will be posted.

Author : Roger K. Newman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780300113006

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The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law by Roger K. Newman Pdf

This book is the first to gather in a single volume concise biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a wide range of individuals who have devised, replenished, expounded, and explained law, The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law presents succinct and lively entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant and lasting influence on American law. Casting a wide net, editor Roger K. Newman includes individuals from around the country, from colonial times to the present, encompassing the spectrum of ideologies from left-wing to right, and including a diversity of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Entries are devoted to the living and dead, the famous and infamous, many who upheld the law and some who broke it. Supreme Court justices, private practice lawyers, presidents, professors, journalists, philosophers, novelists, prosecutors, and others--the individuals in the volume are as diverse as the nation itself. Entries written by close to 600 expert contributors outline basic biographical facts on their subjects, offer well-chosen anecdotes and incidents to reveal accomplishments, and include brief bibliographies. Readers will turn to this dictionary as an authoritative and useful resource, but they will also discover a volume that delights and entertains. Listed in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law: John Ashcroft Robert H. Bork Bill Clinton Ruth Bader Ginsburg Patrick Henry J. Edgar Hoover James Madison Thurgood Marshall Sandra Day O'Connor Janet Reno Franklin D. Roosevelt Julius and Ethel Rosenberg John T. Scopes O. J. Simpson Alexis de Tocqueville Scott Turow And more than 700 others

Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781451602661

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A History of American Law, Revised Edition by Lawrence M. Friedman Pdf

A History of American Law has become a classic for students of law, American history and sociology across the country. In this brilliant and immensely readable book, Lawrence M. Friedman tells the whole fascinating story of American law from its beginnings in the colonies to the present day. By showing how close the life of the law is to the economic and political life of the country, he makes a complex subject understandable and engrossing. A History of American Law presents the achievements and failures of the American legal system in the context of America's commercial and working world, family practices and attitudes toward property, slavery, government, crime and justice. Now Professor Friedman has completely revised and enlarged his landmark work, incorporating a great deal of new material. The book contains newly expanded notes, a bibliography and a bibliographical essay.