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2010565842010. ISBN-13: 9781616190590; ISBN-10: 1616190590. With a New Introduction by Michael Hoeflich Ferriere Claude Joseph de. Beaver John Translator. Duck Sir Arthur. The History of the Roman or Civil Law. Shewing Its Origin and Progress; How and When the Several parts of It Were First Compil'd; With Some Account of the Principal Writers and Commentators Thereupon; And the Method to be Observ'd in Studying the Same. Written Originally in French. To Which is Added Dr. Duck's Treatise on the Use and Authority of the Civil Law in England. With The History of the Origine of the French Laws Translated from the French by J.B. Esq. With a Preface and Notes Shewing the Analogy of the Laws of the Antient Gauls and Britons. Originally published: London: Printed for D. Browne 1724. xii iv 2 169 xxxviii 8 vii 105 7 pp. Reprinted 2005 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. With a New Introduction by Michael Hoeflich John H. & John M. Kane Professor of Law University of Kansas School of Law. ISBN-13: 9781616190590; ISBN-10: 1616190590. Paperback. New. $17.95 Through the influence of Doctors' Commons and the universities the civilians played an important role in the development of English law especially in the fields of commercial estate and admiralty law. Despite its value study of the civil law had entered a moribund phase by the eighteenth century. Several student handbooks attempted to correct this deficiency and Beaver's translation of Ferriere's treatise is among the best. Accompanied by Duck's learned essay that connects the civil law to the common law the work is among the first in English to establish the confluence of these legal traditions. Also included is Beaver's translation of The History of the Origine of the French Laws Translated from the French by J.B. Esq. Shewing the Analogy of the Laws of the Antient Gauls and Britons. First published anonymously in 1703 it has been attributed to Ferriere Gabriel Argou and Claude Fleury. Claude Joseph de Ferriere ca. 1680-ca. 1748 was a well known French jurisconsult dean of the Faculty of Law in Paris and the author of legal treatises and an important legal dictionary Dictionnaire de Droit et de Pratique. unknown books
2010565862010. ISBN-13: 9781616190613; ISBN-10: 1616190612. England's First Important International Trading Company Lingelbach W.E. The Merchant Adventurers of England: Their Laws and Ordinances with Other Documents. Originally published: Philadelphia: The Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania 1902. xxxix 260 pp. Reprinted 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616190613; ISBN-10: 1616190612. Paperback. New. $17.95 With detailed notes and an extensive introduction. Chartered by the crown in 1474 the Merchant Adventurers was England's preeminent regulated international trading company until the early nineteenth century. This source book collects eighteen substantial documents written between 1407 and 1805 the most important years of the society's history. This group includes the Charter of 1407 extracts from the Charter of Edward IV 1462 and the Laws and Ordinances of 1608. Taken together these records form one of the most detailed pictures of business organizations and methods during the later Tudor the Stuart and the early Hanoverian eras. unknown books
2013598232013. ISBN-13: 9781616193041. ISBN-10: 1616193042. Maitland Frederic William. The Constitutional History of England. A Course of Lectures Delivered. Originally published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1908. xxviii 547 pp. Reprinted 2013 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616193041. ISBN-10: 1616193042. Paperback. New. $17.95 Although Maitland never intended to publish these lectures they have long been regarded as one of the best introductions to the English Constitution. Delivered in the winter of 1887 and spring of 1888 and edited and published in 1908 by one of Maitland's students Herbert A.L. Fisher they cover the period from 1066 to the end of the nineteenth century. Rather than a narrative historical format they focus on describing the work of the constitution during five distinct moments in English history: 1307 1509 1625 1702 and 1887. They provide an entry to some of the major concepts he later expounded in his seminal work written with Sir Frederick Pollock The History of English Law. Widely considered the father of legal history Frederic William Maitland 1850-1906 was an English jurist and historian best known for the standard The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I 2 vols. 1895 written with Sir Frederick Pollock. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge and studied at Lincoln's Inn London. Maitland was called to the bar in 1876 and practiced until 1884 when he became a reader in English law 1884 and professor 1888 at Cambridge. He founded the Selden Society in 1887. Hailed for his original outlook on history his works profoundly influenced legal scholarship and remain important today. unknown books
2010565372010. ISBN-13: 9781616190477; ISBN-10: 1616190477. The Rogue's Lexicon Matsell George W. Compiler. Vocabulum; Or The Rogue's Lexicon. Compiled From the Most Authentic Sources. Originally published: New York: George W. Matsell & Co. 1859. vi 130 pp. frontispiece and 2 additional illustrations. Reprinted 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616190477; ISBN-10: 1616190477. Paperback. New. $17.95 As New York City's Chief of Police and an owner of the National Police Gazette Matsell 1811-1877 had an abiding interest in criminal speechways. Although Matsell compiled this dictionary for his colleagues in law enforcement he recognized its value to the linguist. As he notes in the preface criminal terms were beginning to enter general usage and appeared regularly in newspapers court reports and other publications. Matsell's compilation includes such entries as "acorn" a gallows "hemp the flat" choke a fool "rumbo" a prison and "tyburn blossom" a young thief. The appendix contains samples of criminal speech and writing with translations and the vocabularies of gamblers billiard players pugilists and stock brokers. Published just before the Civil War this dictionary offers a fascinating glimpse into the American underworld in the first half of the nineteenth century. unknown books
2011573402011. ISBN-13: 9781616191054; ISBN-10: 1616191058. Guide for Diplomats Published at the End of the First World War Phillimore Sir Walter George Frank. Three Centuries of Treaties of Peace and Their Teaching. Originally published: Boston: Little Brown and Company 1919. xx 227 pp. Reprinted 2011 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616191054; ISBN-10: 1616191058. Paperback. New. $17.95 While writing this book in 1917 Phillimore anticipated the difficulties that would face diplomats at the conclusion of the First World War. Their task would be he thought "a Congress of Vienna a Hague Conference and a Geneva Conference rolled into one." Three Centuries of Treaties of Peace and Their Teaching a historical analysis of treaties enacted from 1582 to 1913 was intended to provide the diplomatic community with "some guidance for the future that we should thereby acquire some explanation of the condition of Europe on the threshold of the present war and see the position to which previous diplomatic settlements had brought us" xii. "The work is a broad scholarly but condense revue of the peace treaties of three centuries has undoubted interest and value." --CHARLES NOBLE GREGORY American Journal of International Law 12 1918 679. Sir WALTER GEORGE FRANK PHILLIMORE 1845-1929 was a Judge of the High Court Justice from 1897 to 1913 a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1913 to 1916 and in 1918 was raised to the peerage. As an authority on ecclesiastical law and international law Lord Phillimore carried on the tradition of his family. He edited the Second Edition of The Ecclesiastical Law of the Church of England and the Third Edition of Vol. IV of International Law both by his father Sir Robert Phillimore. He was President of the International Law Association from 1905-1908. In 1918 he was appointed chairman of the naval prize tribunal. He was the English representative on the commission which sat at The Hague 1920 to prepare the scheme of a permanent Court of International Justice and was also chairman of the Foreign Office committee on the League of Nations. unknown books
2017633912017. ISBN-13: 9781616195106. ISBN-10:161619510X. Savigny Friedrich Carl von. Von Savigny's Treatise on Possession; or the Jus Possessionis of the Civil Law. Sixth Edition. Translated from the German by Sir Erskine Perry. Originally published: London: R. Sweet 1848. xvi 432 pp. Reprinted 2017 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616195106. ISBN-10: 161619510X. Paperback. New. $17.95 The only English translation of his first work and originally published in German in 1803 this treatise on the nature of the legal concept of possession made Savigny's reputation as a jurist of the first order. Friedrich Carl von Savigny 1779-1861 an influential German jurist and scholar of Roman law was a founder with Gustav Hugo of the historical school of jurisprudence which opposed the natural school of thought. He was a professor of Roman law at the University of Berlin from 1810-1842 and later enacted law reforms in the powerful position of Prussian Minister of Justice. He was the author of Of the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence 1814 and the four-volume History of Roman Law in the Middle Ages 1840-1849. unknown books
200537799Albany:: State University of New York Press. As New. 2005. Hardcover. 0791465357 . First printing. As new in glossy pictorial boards. No dust jacket as issued. . State University of New York Press, hardcover books
196931050Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press 1969. Hardcover. xv 199p. dj. The Johns Hopkins Press hardcover books
199099233Accra: Ghana Law Reform Commission 1990. 10p. 7.25x9.75 inches very good in original stapled decorative wraps. Ghana Law Reform Commission unknown books
197156244NY: Saturday Review 1971. Periodical. Small 4to pp. 76-86 92-93. Paper wraps. A VG tight copy. Two articles: "Sexual stereotypes start early" by Howe and " Woman's place is in the curriculum" by Trecker. Saturday Review unknown books
191298Los Angeles: the College 197-. ii 9 iv p. 8.5x11 inches very good. Unused application packet for the unaccredited radical law school which was founded in 1974. "The school's recruitment and admission policies are strongly directed to socio-politically conscious Native American Indian Asian Black and Chicano students. PCL is also the only law school which affirmatively recruits gays." Applicants must list their political views and organizations with which they have worked. the College unknown books
200868202008. ISBN-13: 9780963010629; ISBN-10: 096301062X. Hicks Frederick. Men and Books Famous in the Law. With an introduction by Harlan F. Stone. Originally published: Rochester New York: Lawyers Co-operative Publishing 1921. 259 pp. Reprinted 1992 2008 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9780963010629; ISBN-10: 096301062X. Hardcover with dust jacket. New. $18.95 A classic account of law books and their authors. Within the pages of this volume will be found the stories of great legal writers and more-- especially the story of their legal writings the inception production and vicissitudes of works which have become classics of legal literature. Covers the lives and publications of Littleton Coke Blackstone Cowell Kent Wheaton and Livingston. unknown books
2010518202010. ISBN-13: 9781584778462 ISBN-10: 1584778466. "The Life of the Law Has Not Been Logic." Holmes Oliver Wendell Jr. The Common Law. Originally published: Boston: Little Brown and Company 1881. xvi 422 pp. Reprinted 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584778462 ISBN-10: 1584778466. Paperback. New. $18.95 This landmark work which according to Winfield "blew fresh air into lawyer's minds encrusted with Blackstone and Kent" was a decisive influence on sociological jurisprudence legal realism and the general development of American law in the twentieth century. Winfield Chief Sources of Anglo-American Law 38. Rejecting the reigning positivist ethos of the nineteenth century Holmes proposed that the law was not a science founded on abstract universal principles but a body of practices that responded to particular situations. This functionalist interpretation led to his radical conclusion that law was not discovered but invented. This theme is announced in the famous quote at the beginning of Lecture I: "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience" 1. A legendary figure in American law Holmes 1841-1935 was Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902-1932 and Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1899-1902. unknown books
2009539902009. ISBN-13: 9781584779858; ISBN-10: 1584779853. Neilson George. Trial by Combat. Glasgow: William Hodge & Co. 1890. xiv 348 pp. Reprinted 2009 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779858; ISBN-10: 1584779853. Paperback. New. $18.95 Although it is not known exactly when trial by combat battle or duel began as a method of conflict resolution its origin certainly goes back before the feudal era. Neilson focuses on Britain and Scotland and traces this tradition from before the Middle Ages to the Appeal of Murder Act of 1819. "All the authorities on the subject I believe are collected in this excellent book.": Pollock The Genius of the Common Law 20. unknown books
2002336822002. ISBN-13: 9781584772309; ISBN-10: 1584772301. Phelps Charles E. Falstaff and Equity: An Interpretation. Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1902. xvi 201 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584772309; ISBN-10: 1584772301. Hardcover. New. $18.95 "Judge Phelps of Baltimore has done a very pretty piece of legal and literary work in this volume. The text is Falstaff's remark in the Gadshill scene: `An the Prince and the Poins be not two arrant cowards there's no equity stirring." All the commentators have passed this over assuming it seems that the meaning is only `there's no such thing as justice in the world.' Certainly the words will bear that meaning. But it is a flat remark for Falstaff to make if that is all. Is it not really pointed by some special allusion Putting that question to himself as a good Shakespeare reader Judge Phelps as a good lawyer answers it by looking to what was happening in the Courts just before the first part of Henry IV was produced. That was some time in 1597 probably near the end of the year. It turns out that equity was stirring very much in 1596-7.": F.P. Law Quarterly Review 17: 322-323 cited in Marke A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University 1953 1143. unknown books
2006439862006. ISBN-13: 9781584776994; ISBN 1584776994. Rushton William L. Shakespeare A Lawyer. Originally published: London: Longman Brown Green Longmans and Roberts 1858. 50 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584776994; ISBN 1584776994. Hardcover. New. $18.95 The frequent occurrence of legal terms phrases and concepts in Shakespeare's works have led several scholars to conclude that he was trained as a lawyer or that he studied the law during his youth. This belief is bolstered by a few tantalizing bits of biographical data that link him to legal London. This subject attracted a great deal of attention during the nineteenth century particularly in Great Britain. This brief book by Rushton a London barrister is among the most sophisticated. Unlike other studies he restricts his attention to legal words and phrases that laymen would not have known. He locates and discusses around a hundred examples that were "used by Shakespeare with a consciousness of their original technicality and of their legal purport" 7. Whether or not you support Rushton's thesis his book is appealing for its quotations and commentary. unknown books
2010565042010. ISBN-13: 9781616190354; ISBN-10: 1616190353. "The Best Essay on This Subject" Scrutton Thomas Edward. The Influence of the Roman Law on the Law of England. Originally published: Cambridge: at the University Press 1885. xvi 199 pp. Reprinted 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616190354; ISBN-10: 1616190353. Paperback. New. $18.95 Reprint of the sole edition. The extent of Roman influence on English common law long a keenly debated topic was subjected to careful scrutiny during the establishment of modern English legal historiography in the late 1800s. Scrutton's revisionist essay a path-breaking work that won Cambridge University's prestigious Yorke Prize evaluates and mostly discredits the work of his predecessors most notably Finlason Coote and Seebohm. In its place he offers a history from the Saxon period to his day guided by a close reading of sources. Scrutton believed that Roman law was a minor influence until it was introduced to Oxford by Vacarius. It became considerable after that watershed event an argument he advances through a close reading of Glanville and a book-by-book demonstration of Azo's influence on Bracton. "Scrutton has written what we believe to be the best essay on this subject. It will be a useful guide to the authorities for any who are investigating the history of our law while the author's own opinions are for the most part sound and sober and are clearly and modestly stated.": Law Quarterly Review 2 1886 96. unknown books
1998233071998. ISBN-13: 9781886363571; ISBN-10: 1886363579. Maitland Frederic William. Roman Canon Law in the Church of England: Six Essays. Originally published: London: Methuen & Co. 1898. vii 184 pp. Reprinted 1998 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363571; ISBN-10: 1886363579. Hardcover. New. $19.50 Reprint of six essays that proclaim the authority of Roman canon law over the English Ecclesiastical Courts. The essays are: I William Lyndwood II. Church State and Decretals III. William of Drogheda and the Universal Ordinary IV. Henry II and the Criminous Clerks V. "Execrabilis" in the Common Please VI. The Deacon and the Jewess. These essays were originally published in the English Historical Review and Law Quarterly Review. Catalogue of the Library of the Law School of Harvard University 1909 II:38. Marke A Catalogue of the Law Collection of New York University 1953 131. unknown books
2006446372006. ISBN-13: 9781584777236; ISBN-10: 1584777230. Bonner Robert Johnson. Evidence in Athenian Courts. Chicago: Originally published: University of Chicago Press 1905. 98 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777236. ISBN-10: 1584777230. Hardcover. New. $19.95 "This is a learned keen and vigorous essay dealing with the subject of Evidence in Athenian Courts from the standpoint of English law. . Writers on the theory and practice of evidence wherever considered or used will find this work valuable. And practitioners had better not turn their backs on an account of classics which goes into the human nature of art in the way indicated by the following description of how Greek speech writers served their clients who were conventionally supposed to use their own language about their own cases.": Charles E. Grinnell American Law Review 42 1948 946. unknown books
2010568432010. ISBN-13: 9781616190378; ISBN-10: 161619037X. Brown Peter Megargee. Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom. Clark: The Lawbook Exchange Ltd 2010. xii 13-305 pp. Foreword by Alexandra Stoddard author of Living a Beautiful Life: 500 Ways to Add Elegance Order Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life. ISBN-13: 9781616190378; ISBN-10: 161619037X. Paperback. New. $19.95 "Often we come to a point in our lives when we dispense with the trivial and tire of ordinary superficialities" writes Peter Megargee Brown in Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom. Here he has collected some of the most profound statements of all time and gathered them into topical sections reflecting the depth of the thinker behind the trial lawyer. Sprinkled with his comments on the quotations he has carefully selected over many years sparkling anecdotes and essays complement the quotations and provide a complete and thought-provoking portrait of each subject. Contains two comprehensive indexes: Authors and Sources Index and a Subject Index that will help readers locate concepts. Brown leads you through the great subjects mankind has grappled with since the beginning-spirituality love life death friendship- and offers much more-his appraisal of the complexities of character writing history memory privacy travel-drawing on the wisdom of great philosophers including Aristotle Hillel Voltaire and Hegel Supreme Court Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes Benjamin Cardozo and Joseph Story the late Tony Snow writers such as George Bernard Shaw Ayn Rand Maureen Dowd and Malachy McCourt politicians Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt painter Henri Matisse and architect Frank Lloyd Wright. A collection that can be read cover-to-cover or flipped through for a moment of illumination Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom will entertain and enlighten seekers of truth. Turn to this treasury for inspiration as Alexandra Stoddard says in the Foreword "Whether you are a reader a writer a historian a philosopher or a speaker at important events-even making a toast-this personal selection will delight you uplift you and help you to Figure It Out." Peter Megargee Brown 1922-2014 began his legal career as assistant counsel to John Marshall Harlan on the New York State Crime Commission. After Mr. Harlan was appointed to the United States Supreme Court Mr. Brown went on to be. unknown books
2007524992007. ISBN-13: 9781584778639; ISBN-10: 1584778636. The Secrets of Effective Inquiry Brown Peter Megargee. The Art of Questioning: Thirty Maxims of Cross Examination. Originally published: New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. 1987. xxxiii 122 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584778639; ISBN-10: 1584778636. Paperback. New. $19.95 Written for seasoned attorneys novices and laymen this classic essay reveals step by step how lawyers and non-lawyers can learn to ask the right question and get the answer they want. Useful beyond his stated purpose Brown shows how effective inquiry is a skill that can be learned to gain success in almost any line of endeavor. "Peter Megargee Brown's delightful collection of tips on questioning for the litigating attorney should be almost as much fun for the layman. It is full of wit and wisdom and shrewd insights and the chapters read like short plays.": Louis Auchincloss. Peter Megargee Brown began his legal career as assistant counsel to John Marshall Harlan on the New York State Crime Commission. After Mr. Harlan was appointed to the United States Supreme Court Mr. Brown went on to become chief litigator for the New York firm of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. In 1982 he founded his own law firm in New York Brown & Seymour. He is a Past President of the Federal Bar Council and a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is the author of numerous books including Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom. He was educated at Yale College and Yale Law School and lives with his wife the designer and author Alexandra Stoddard in Stonington CT. The Peter Megargee Brown Papers the legal papers of the author comprising 303 bound volumes of his principal law suits over 50 years of practice in the United States Supreme Court and Appellate Courts are available for the use of students and scholars and can be found in the "Manuscripts and Archives" section of the Yale University Library. unknown books
2008534182008. ISBN-13: 9781584779025; ISBN-10: 1584779020. With a New Preface by Jacob A. Stein Calamandrei Piero. Eulogy of Judges. Translated by John Clarke Adams and C. Abbott Phillips Jr. Originally published: Princeton: Princeton University Press 1946. viii iii-viii new preface viii 88 pp. Reprinted 2008 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. With a New Preface by Jacob A. Stein Partner Stein Mitchell & Mezines LLP Washington DC. ISBN-13: 9781584779025; ISBN-10: 1584779020. Paperback. New. $19.95 Reprint of the first American edition. First published in Italian in 1936 this is a collection of maxims anecdotes and observations on the nature of law and justice by a professor of legal procedure at the University of Florence. Some chapters are: On the Faith of Judges The Prime Requisite of Lawyers; On Etiquette Or Discretion in The Court; On the Relationship Between the Lawyer and the Truth or on the Necessary Partisanship of the Lawyer. With a new preface by Jacob A. Stein prominent Washington D.C. trial lawyer and author of Legal Spectator & More 2003 and other titles. unknown books
1996162551996. ISBN-13: 9781886363076; ISBN-10: 1886363072. Darrow Clarence S. An Eye for an Eye. Originally published: New York: Fox Duffield & Company 1905. 213 pp. Reprinted 1996 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363076; ISBN-10: 1886363072. Hardcover. New. $19.95 An Eye for an Eye was Darrow's only fictional work aside from his autobiographical novel Farmington published in 1904. It tells the story of Jim Jackson who struggles with poverty and harsh circumstances before finally murdering his wife in a fit of rage. Faced with the gallows Jackson confesses: "If ther'd been forty scaffolds right before my eyes I'd have brought down the poker just the same." Darrow's novel is a sociological polemic which foreshadows such later works as Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Abe Ravitz in his Clarence Darrow and the American Literary Tradition 1962 observed that An Eye for an Eye was worthy of a trophy not only for sociological veracity but also for genuine literary achievement. unknown books
2001308782001. ISBN-13: 9781584771630; ISBN-10: 1584771631. De Puy Henry F. A Bibliography of the English Colonial Treaties with the American Indians. New York: The Lenox Club 1917. 108 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584771630; ISBN-10: 1584771631. Hardcover. New. $19.95 Many of the records of the various treaties with the Indians exist only in manuscript. This bibliography locates and describes fifty treaties that were separately printed in small print quantities and thus are exceedingly rare. For each treaty De Puy provides full collation a brief synopsis of the contents an illustration and the location of copies in principal libraries and private collections. See Besterman A World Bibliography of Bibliographies 352. unknown books
2003366152003. ISBN-13: 9781584773528; ISBN-10: 1584773529. DeWitt David Miller. The Judicial Murder of Mary Surratt. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co. 1895. vi 259 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584773528; ISBN-10: 1584773529. Hardcover. New. $19.95 Reprint of first edition. Mary Surratt was the first woman tried and executed by the United States. She owned and ran a boardinghouse in Washington D.C. where John Wilkes Booth and other conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln often met. She was tried and convicted of complicity in Abraham Lincoln's assassination and hanged on July 7 1865. Though current scholarship indicates otherwise many writers have portrayed her as an innocent victim of a vengeful military tribunal that did not have the right to try her for her involvement in the assassination plot. Two events supported this view. One was the 1866 Supreme Court decision Ex parte Milligan which invalidated the authority of military courts to try civilians in places where civil courts were functioning. Ambiguity concerning military and civil authority in Washington D.C. in 1865 raised questions about the legality of her trial. The other event was the trial of her co-conspirator son John Surratt before a civil jury in 1867 two years after her death. Surratt's testimony was similar to that of his mother. When his trial ended in a hung jury it seemed to many that the military court had executed an innocent woman. unknown books
