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2018336372018. ISBN-13: 9781584771807; ISBN-10: 1584771801. Orfield Lester Bernhardt. The Growth of Scandinavian Law. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press for Temple University Publications 1953. xx 363 pp. Reprinted 2002 2018 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584771807; ISBN-10: 1584771801. Hardcover. New. $39.95 A study in comparative law that examines the legal systems of Denmark Iceland Norway and Sweden and the forces that influenced their development. According to Orfield the Scandinavian states are a useful area for study due to their democratic traditions high rates of literacy commitment to progressive social legislation and unique examples of law based largely on custom and usage that owe little to Anglo-American or Continental models. unknown books
2000267662000. ISBN-13: 9781584770374; ISBN-10: 1584770376. Calhoun George M. The Growth of Criminal Law in Ancient Greece. Originally published: Berkeley: University of California Press 1927. x 149 pp. Reprinted 2000 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584770374; ISBN-10: 1584770376. Hardcover. New. $34.95 A fascinating examination of the evolution of criminal law in ancient Greece that begins with the Homeric era and highlights Solon's impact on legislation and the institution of criminal action. unknown books
2007453472007. ISBN-13: 9781584777168; ISBN-10: 1584777168. Hurst James Willard. The Growth of American Law: The Law Makers. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1950. xiii 502 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777168. ISBN-10: 1584777168. Paperback. New. $29.95 The first contemporary history of the development of American law this book revolutionized the field of American legal history. The first study published after World War II and a ground-breaking work that devoted attention to several issues neglected in earlier histories it surveys the nature and success of American law and its law-making agencies and legislative bodies from roughly 1740-1940. Considered ".a pioneering attempt to evaluate in broad terms the contributions to the development of American law made by its five chief formative agencies the legislatures the courts the constitution-making process the bar and the executive." William F. Fracher Mo. L. Rev. 15:332-333. By the major legal historian whose writings led ". scholars from other disciplines. to look at law with a fresh and sometimes illuminating eye." Friedman A History of American Law 595. An important work that has been highly regarded for its social perspective Henry Steele Commager called it ".a pioneer work in this badly neglected field .combines scholarship insight and narrative and analytical skill in a striking manner." James Willard Hurst 1910-1997 was an important and influential legal scholar the father of American legal history. He developed a new approach to legal history in moving it beyond the subject of the common law of England and its influence on the American revolution or a history of the American court system. Instead Hurst created a type of American legal history that encompassed its social and economic implications and the role of individual law makers. Born in Rockford Illinois he attended Williams College and the Harvard Law School graduating in 1935. He serves as a research assistant for his law professor Felix Frankfurter and later clerked for Justice Louis Brandeis on the Supreme Court of the United States. He taught law at the University of Wisconsin Law School Madison 1937-80 emeritus 1981. His books on American legal history include Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the 19th Century United States 1956 and Law and Economic G. unknown books
2011319652011. ISBN-13: 9781584771944; ISBN-10: 1584771941. Hurst James Willard. The Growth of American Law: The Law Makers. Originally published: Boston: Little Brown and Company 1950. xiii 502 pp. Reprinted 2001 2011 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584771944; ISBN-10: 1584771941. Hardcover. New. $39.95 The first contemporary history of the development of American law this book revolutionized the field of American legal history. The first study published after World War II and a ground-breaking work that devoted attention to several issues neglected in earlier histories it surveys the nature and success of American law and its law-making agencies and legislative bodies from roughly 1740-1940. Considered ".a pioneering attempt to evaluate in broad terms the contributions to the development of American law made by its five chief formative agencies the legislatures the courts the constitution-making process the bar and the executive." William F. Fracher Mo. L. Rev. 15:332-333. By the major legal historian whose writings led ". scholars from other disciplines. to look at law with a fresh and sometimes illuminating eye." Friedman A History of American Law 595. An important work that has been highly regarded for its social perspective Henry Steele Commager called it ".a pioneer work in this badly neglected field .combines scholarship insight and narrative and analytical skill in a striking manner." James Willard Hurst 1910-1997 was an important and influential legal scholar the father of American legal history. He developed a new approach to legal history in moving it beyond the subject of the common law of England and its influence on the American revolution or a history of the American court system. Instead Hurst created a type of American legal history that encompassed its social and economic implications and the role of individual law makers. Born in Rockford Illinois he attended Williams College and the Harvard Law School graduating in 1935. He serves as a research assistant for his law professor Felix Frankfurter and later clerked for Justice Louis Brandeis on the Supreme Court of the United States. He taught law at the University of Wisconsin Law School Madison 1937-80 emeritus 1981. His books on American legal history include Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the 19th Century United States 1. unknown books
2009539922009. ISBN-13: 9781584779353; ISBN-10: 1584779357. The Grounds and Rudiments of Equity A Gentleman of the Middle Temple. The Grounds and Rudiments of Law and Equity Alphabetically Digested: Containing a Collection of Rules or Maxims with the Doctrine Upon Them Illustrated by Various Cases Extracted from the Books and Records to Evince that These Principles Have Been the Foundation Upon Which the Judges and Sages of the Law Have Built Their Solemn Resolutions and Determinations. The Whole Designed to Reduce the Knowledge of the Laws of England to a More Regular Science and to form them into a Proper Digest for the Service of the Nobility Clergy Gentlemen in the Commission of the Peace and Private Gentlemen As Well as the Professors and Students of the Law. With Three Tables. First of the Rudiments and Grounds. Second of the New Cases. Third of Principal Matters. London: T. Osborne 1751. Tall folio 8" x 12" 34 372 16 pp. Reprinted 2009 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779353. ISBN-10: 1584779357. Smyth-sewn cloth binding. Hardcover. New. $150. Reprint of the second edition. First published in 1749 this fascinating textbook for laymen and law students is a fine example of the maxim-based pedagogy represented by such authors as Bacon Noy Wingate and Broome. Grounds and Rudiments contains 526 alphabetically arranged maxims rules principles and quotations accompanied by comments and illustrations. It also includes short essays on law in general the sources of law the nature of equity and the pedagogical value of maxims. unknown books
172520771Amsterdam 1725. Folio. 15 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches. Title printed in red and black. Folding engraved frontispiece engraved list of plates within a decorative surround 72 engraved plates maps and broadsides on 73 leaves 5 of the single-page plates cut to the edge of the image and mounted as issued 45 double-page 19 folding and including 10 which combine both engraving and letterpress text one plate loosely inserted 2 with sections of blank margins torn away some other clean tears occasionally affecting the image area. Contemporary Dutch speckled calf spine in eight compartments with raised bands red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment repeat decoration in gilt in the others joints slightly split extremities scuffed<br/> <br/>A very rare collection of contemporary satirical prints relating to the financial exploits of John Law and his infamous Mississippi Bubble.<br/> <br/>John Law bap. 21 April 1671 - 21 March 1729 was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade. He is said to be the father of finance responsible for the adoption or use of paper money or bills in the world today. Law was a gambler and a brilliant mental calculator and was known to win card games by mentally calculating the odds. An expert in statistics he was the originator of economic theories including two major ideas: The Scarcity Theory of Value and the Real bills doctrine. The present work records the economic crisis precipitated by Law. The crisis had its origins in the decision of the French regent Philippe d'Orléans to appoint John Law the Controller General of Finances for France. In May 1716 the Banque Générale Privée which developed the use of paper money was set up by Law. It was a private bank but three quarters of the capital consisted of government bills and government accepted notes. In August 1717 he bought the Mississippi Company to help the French colony in Louisiana. In 1717 he also brokered the sale of Thomas Pitt's diamond to the regent Philippe d'Orléans. In the same year Law floated the Mississippi Company as a joint stock trading company called the Compagnie d'Occident which was granted a trade monopoly of the West Indies and North America. The bank became the Banque Royale in 1718 meaning the notes were guaranteed by the king. The Company absorbed the Compagnie des Indes Orientales Compagnie de Chine and other rival trading companies and became the Compagnie Perpetuelle des Indes on 23 May 1719 with a monopoly of commerce on all the seas. The system however encouraged speculation in shares in The Company of the Indies the shares becoming a sort of paper currency. In 1720 the bank and company were united and Law was appointed Controller General of Finances to attract capital. Law's pioneering note-issuing bank was extremely successful until it collapsed and caused an economic crisis in France and across Europe. Law exaggerated the wealth of Louisiana with an effective marketing scheme which led to wild speculation on the shares of the company in 1719. In February 1720 it was valued for a very high future cash flow at 10000 livres. Shares rose from 500 livres in 1719 to as much as 15000 livres in the first half of 1720 but by the summer of 1720 there was a sudden decline in confidence leading to a 97 percent decline in market capitalization by 1721. Predictably the bubble burst at the end of 1720 when opponents of the financier attempted en masse to convert their notes into specie. By the end of 1720 Philippe II dismissed Law who then fled from France. Originally published by a group of Amsterdam booksellers the work has a convoluted bibliographic history owing to the ongoing enlargement of the number of prints published between late 1720 and the ensuing years coupled with the issuance of the plates as separate unbound sheets as well as later editions with yet more plates which maintained the title page dated 1720. In short nearly every extant example is unique in composition. "This remarkable complexity helps to explain why the book continues to fascinate scholars and readers to the present day: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid in its many diverse copies represents an important witness to the events of 1720 and their aftermath which makes it valuable to cultural and economic historians . The book presents the rise progress and downfall of the deceptive trade of 1720 what that a group of booksellers who published it in 1720 when in Amsterdam where in order to restore social and ethical norms in Dutch society why by making fools of the greedy in a theatrical setting how. In short the Tafereel is an Amsterdam-born satirical comedy in disguise" Kuniko Forrer "Het groot tafereel der dwaasheid: A Bibliographical Interpretation" in The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance Culture and the Crash of 1720 Edited by William N. Goetzmann et. al. pp. 35-36. The present example corresponds to Forrer's third edition issued shortly after 1723 with the "Register" listing 73 plates and bound in a contemporary binding attributed to the Double Drawer Handle Bindery. This edition noted as the final edition published in the 1720s and the most complete including portraits of Madame Law and the King of the Mississippi "Der Koning van Missisipi" not found in earlier issues among other additions.<br/> <br/>Goldsmiths 5829; Kress 3217; Muller 3535; Sabin 28932; A.H. Cole The Great Mirror of Folly . an economic-bibliographical study Harvard: 1949; The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance Culture and the Crash of 1720 Edited by William N. Goetzmann et. al. Yale University Press: 2013. unknown books
2002336282002. ISBN-13: 9781584772194; ISBN-10: 1584772190. Leaming Aaron and Jacob Spicer. The Grants Concessions and Original Constitutions of the Province of New Jersey: The Acts Passed During the Proprietary Governments and Other Material Transactions Before the Surrender Thereof to Queen Anne The Instrument of Surrender and Her Formal Acceptance Thereof Lord Cornbury's Commission and Instructions Consequent Thereon Collected by Some Gentlemen Employed By the General Assembly. And Afterwards Published by Virtue of an Act of the Legislature of the said Province With Proper Tables Alphabetically Digested Containing the Principal Matters in the Book. Philadelphia: W. Bradford 1881. vi 763 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584772194. ISBN-10: 1584772190. Hardcover. New. $135. Reprint of the 1881 second edition. Originally printed by William Bradford at Philadelphia in 1758. The work covers the years 1664-1702 and contains the deeds and agreements of the proprietary period and Lord Cornbury's commission and instructions as royal governor together with the laws passed before the surrender of the province to Queen Anne. Includes laws regarding trade regulation roads militia livestock courts appointment of governors Indians negroes civil and religious freedom Quakers taxes war land grants liquor sales freeholders legislature privileges and rights and individuals and more. The capital laws covered state that adultery rape witchcraft and conspiracy all were punishable by death. With an index for East Jersey and an index for West Jersey. unknown books
2004387742004. ISBN-13: 9781584774327; ISBN-10: 1584774320. Edwards George J. The Grand Jury: An Essay Awarded the Peter Stephen Duponceau Prize by the Law Academy of Philadelphia. Originally published: Philadelphia: George T. Bisel Company 1906. lxxix 219 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774327. ISBN-10: 1584774320. Hardcover. New. $29.95 This important book traces the history and development of the grand jury from its origins in Saxon England to the author's time. Edwards 1875-1946 was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer who specialized in insurance law. His book won the prestigious Peter Stephen DuPonceau Prize of the Law Academy of Philadelphia in 1904. The Prize Commitee praised the book's "vast amount and valuable information" and observed "not only is the subject extremely interesting . it is of great practical importance." Nearly a century later the book remains an indispensable authority. unknown books
2011589042011. ISBN-13: 9781584779377; ISBN-10: 1584779373. Hughes William. The Grand Abridgment of the Law Continued. Or A Collection of the Principal Cases and Points of the Common-Law of England Contained in All the Reports Extant From the First of Elizabeth to this present Time By Way of Common-Place. A Work Very Usefull for All Students and Practitioners in the Law. With Two Tables The One Containing the Names of the Cases: The Other Of the Matter of Every of the Said Cases. Published in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second King of England Scotland France and Ireland &c. London: Printed by J.S. for Henry Twyford George Sawbridge Thomas Dring and John Place 1660-1662. 3 Volumes; with Appendix in 3 books. Main text in double columns. XX 47 758 114; 50 759-1576 86; 32 1577-2132 65 36 2133-2418 64 pp. With a new introduction by David J. Seipp Professor of Law Boston University School of Law. Reprinted 2011 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779377. ISBN-10: 1584779373. Hardcover. Volume 1 spine label slightly out of alignment otherwise as new. Publisher's price USD 295. Special $195. Reprint of sole edition. Hughes a barrister of Gray's Inn conceived this abridgement as a continuation of Robert Brooke's Graunde Abridgement of English case reports first edition 1573. "These volumes embrace but a short period and the work is a mere supplement to the earlier Abridgments but it is a good authority." Marvin Legal Bibliography 1847 402. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:19 15. unknown books
2011589052011. ISBN-13: 9781584779377; ISBN-10: 1584779373. Hughes William. The Grand Abridgment of the Law Continued. Or A Collection of the Principal Cases and Points of the Common-Law of England Contained in All the Reports Extant From the First of Elizabeth to this present Time By Way of Common-Place. A Work Very Usefull for All Students and Practitioners in the Law. With Two Tables The One Containing the Names of the Cases: The Other Of the Matter of Every of the Said Cases. Published in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second King of England Scotland France and Ireland &c. London: Printed by J.S. for Henry Twyford George Sawbridge Thomas Dring and John Place 1660-1662. 3 Volumes; with Appendix in 3 books. Main text in double columns. XX 47 758 114; 50 759-1576 86; 32 1577-2132 65 36 2133-2418 64 pp. With a new introduction by David J. Seipp Professor of Law Boston University School of Law. Reprinted 2011 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779377. ISBN-10: 1584779373. Hardcover. Volume 1 front hinge cracked but secure and spine label slightly out of alignment otherwise as new. Publisher's price USD 295. Special $150. Reprint of sole edition. Hughes a barrister of Gray's Inn conceived this abridgement as a continuation of Robert Brooke's Graunde Abridgement of English case reports first edition 1573. "These volumes embrace but a short period and the work is a mere supplement to the earlier Abridgments but it is a good authority." Marvin Legal Bibliography 1847 402. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:19 15. unknown books
2011540382011. ISBN-13: 9781584779377; ISBN-10: 1584779373. "A Good Authority" on the Abridgements Hughes William. The Grand Abridgment of the Law Continued. Or A Collection of the Principal Cases and Points of the Common-Law of England Contained in All the Reports Extant From the First of Elizabeth to this present Time By Way of Common-Place. A Work Very Usefull for All Students and Practitioners in the Law. With Two Tables The One Containing the Names of the Cases: The Other Of the Matter of Every of the Said Cases. Published in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord Charles the Second King of England Scotland France and Ireland &c. Originally published: London: Printed by J.S. for Henry Twyford George Sawbridge Thomas Dring and John Place 1660-1662. 3 Volumes; with Appendix in 3 books. Main text in double columns. XX III-XX new Introduction 47 758 114; 50 759-1576 86; 32 1577-2132 65 36 2133-2418 64 pp. With a new introduction by David J. Seipp Professor of Law Boston University School of Law. Reprinted 2011 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779377. ISBN-10: 1584779373. Hardcover. New. $295. Reprint of sole edition. Hughes a barrister of Gray's Inn conceived this abridgement as a continuation of Robert Brooke's Graunde Abridgement of English case reports first edition 1573. "These volumes embrace but a short period and the work is a mere supplement to the earlier Abridgments but it is a good authority." Marvin Legal Bibliography 1847 402. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:19 15. unknown books
1999240801999. ISBN-13: 9781886363793; ISBN-10: 188636379X. Fortescue Sir John. The Governance of England: Otherwise Called The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy. A Revised Text edited with Introduction Notes and Appendices by Charles Plummer. London: Oxford University Press 1885. xxiii 387 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363793; ISBN-10: 188636379X. Hardcover. New. $70. "This work cannot be described as the first law book written in English but it has the distinction of being the first book about law in that language." Winfield The Chief Sources of English Legal History 317-318. Examines and compares the value of absolute and limited monarchy in the governments of France and England. First published in 1714 this edition which was edited by Christopher Plummer was published in 1885. Winfield also describes this edition as "The best edition." Marke A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University 1953 365. unknown books
19672821967. LAW Denis. THE GOLDEN BOOTS. London: Pelham Books 1967. 12mo. light-purple cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Law on the title page to Brian. A very scarce novel about football soccer by the former Manchester United player. Law was voted the European Footballer Of The Year in 1964 and inducted into the English Football Hall Of Fame in 2002. Very Good bright Brian Green's name & address on the front endpaper in small script; little edgewear minor soil & several short tears d/j. Scarce! $350.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
2007439672007. ISBN-13: 9781584777328; ISBN-10: 158477732X. Foundations of English Law Stearns John M. The Germs and Developments of the Laws of England: Embracing the Anglo-Saxon Laws Extant: From the Sixth Century to A.D. 1066: as Translated into English Under the Royal Record Commission of William IV.: with the Introduction of the Common Law by Norman Judges After the Conquest and its Earliest Proferts in Magna Charta. Originally published: New York: Banks 1889. 370 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777328; ISBN-10: 158477732X. Hardcover. New. $35. Reprint of the sole edition. Contains a translation of the Laws of Edward the Confessor and of Magna Carta. Also includes a glossary of terms found in Saxon laws: p. 369-370. unknown books
2000268312000. ISBN-13: 9781584770435; ISBN-10: 1584770430. Pollock Sir Frederick. The Genius of the Common Law. Originally published: New York: The Columbia University Press 1912. vii 141 pp. Reprinted 2000 2019 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584770435. ISBN-10: 1584770430. Hardcover. New. $19.95 A collection of Sir Frederick Pollock's lectures from the Carpentier Series at Columbia University. Holdsworth praised the eight lectures as ".critical studies of aspects and characteristics of the common law which only an accomplished legal historian a master of the modern law and a professor of jurisprudence could have written." Holdsworth Some Makers of English Law 287. Marke A Catalogue of the Law Collection of New York University 1953 143. Sir Frederick Pollock 1845-1937 was one of the greatest British judges and legal scholars of his day. His treatises on contracts jurisprudence the common law and other subjects did much to clarify and systematize English law. Several of these were standard texts that went through several editions. He is also remembered for his collaboration with F.W. Maitland on The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I and his correspondence with Oliver Wendell Holmes which was published posthumously as The Holmes-Pollock Letters. He was educated at Trinity College Cambridge and admitted to the Bar in 1871. He taught at the University of Oxford from 1883-1903. unknown books
2001292832001. ISBN-13: 9781584771203; ISBN-10: 1584771208. Cooley Thomas M. The General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States of America. Originally published: Boston: Little Brown and Company 1880. xxxix 376 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584771203; ISBN-10: 1584771208. Hardcover. New. $85. Reprint of the first edition of the leading textbook of its time on the subject of constitutional law. In this work Cooley "presents briefly yet comprehensively the general principles of constitutional law as developed under the American system both national and state. unknown books
201142477Gambia: ArtWords 2011. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 212pp. Fine and unmarked but for Library of Congress "duplicate" stamp to title page. ".Consists of nineteen cases from 2005 to 2011 including some judgments of Justice A.S. Tahir; the pioneer Chairman of the Cadi Appeals Panel. ArtWords unknown books
2000287532000. ISBN-13: 9781584770909; ISBN-10: 1584770902. Lauterpacht Hersch. The Function of Law in the International Community. Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon Press 1933. xxvi 470 pp. Reprinted 2000 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584770909; ISBN-10: 1584770902. Smythe sewn green cloth hardcover with gilt stamped spine and front cover. New. $25. Lauterpacht disputes the widely held viewpoint in the international community that international law has inherent limitations and is incapable of unification and presents his treatise in a well-researched technical format. "While on the surface Dr. Lauterpacht's study is an analysis of the judicial process it embraces practically the whole philosophy of international law. However it is less the scope than the manner of handling the subject which makes this book one of the most outstanding contributions to the science of international law." Francis Deak Columbia Law Review 34:797. unknown books
2013615092013. ISBN-13: 9781616193928. ISBN-10: 1616193921. Gordan John D. III. The Fugitive Slave Rescue Trial of Robert Morris: Benjamin Robbins Curtis on the Road to Dred Scott. xix 120 pp. 19 illustrations. Clark New Jersey: Talbot Publishing 2013. ISBN-13: 9781616193928. ISBN-10: 1616193921. Hardcover. New. $39.95 Relying on extensive surviving original records this book analyzes the November 1851 trial in the federal circuit court of Robert Morris the second black admitted to practice in Massachusetts for rescuing a fugitive slave from the custody of the U.S. marshal in the federal courtroom in Boston. It demonstrates that Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis a supporter of Daniel Webster and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 presiding under a recess appointment made two critical rulings against Morris that were at odds with existing precedents. Finally the book contextualizes Morris's trial among the other trials for this rescue the prosecutions for the attempt to rescue Anthony Burns another fugitive slave in 1854 and the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott in 1857. "This "small" book packs a large wallop. Gordan navigates the complexities of trial advocacy and trial procedure with unexcelled mastery. His analysis of the complex legal issues including the power of the jury to rule on questions of law as well as fact is persuasive. Gordan also throws a revisionist light on some of the major players - like John P. Hale who emerges from the wings as the real leader of the abolitionist bar; and Benjamin R. Curtis whose manipulation of the law in the Morris trial illuminates his famous dissent in Dred Scott v. Sandford. A gem of a book." -- R. KENT NEWMYER University of Connecticut School of Law. "A wonderfully detailed exposition of the fugitive slave rescue trial of Robert Morris John Gordan's work unearths a wealth of material about the events the people and the legal acumen of the lawyers and judges involved. It will enable scholars to evaluate a question central to our judicial system: What is the proper division of authority between judge and jury The information contained in Gordan's book provides a much-needed historically accurate basis from which to answer that question." -- MAEVA MARCUS The George Washington University Law School. unknown books
2013618032013. ISBN-13: 9781616194055. ISBN-10: 1616194057. Gordan John D. III. The Fugitive Slave Rescue Trial of Robert Morris: Benjamin Robbins Curtis on the Road to Dred Scott. xix 120 pp. 19 illustrations. Clark New Jersey: Talbot Publishing 2013. ISBN-13: 9781616194055. ISBN-10: 1616194057. Paperback. New. $29.95 Relying on extensive surviving original records this book analyzes the November 1851 trial in the federal circuit court of Robert Morris the second black admitted to practice in Massachusetts for rescuing a fugitive slave from the custody of the U.S. marshal in the federal courtroom in Boston. It demonstrates that Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis a supporter of Daniel Webster and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 presiding under a recess appointment made two critical rulings against Morris that were at odds with existing precedents. Finally the book contextualizes Morris's trial among the other trials for this rescue the prosecutions for the attempt to rescue Anthony Burns another fugitive slave in 1854 and the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott in 1857. "This "small" book packs a large wallop. Gordan navigates the complexities of trial advocacy and trial procedure with unexcelled mastery. His analysis of the complex legal issues including the power of the jury to rule on questions of law as well as fact is persuasive. Gordan also throws a revisionist light on some of the major players - like John P. Hale who emerges from the wings as the real leader of the abolitionist bar; and Benjamin R. Curtis whose manipulation of the law in the Morris trial illuminates his famous dissent in Dred Scott v. Sandford. A gem of a book." -- R. KENT NEWMYER University of Connecticut School of Law. "A wonderfully detailed exposition of the fugitive slave rescue trial of Robert Morris John Gordan's work unearths a wealth of material about the events the people and the legal acumen of the lawyers and judges involved. It will enable scholars to evaluate a question central to our judicial system: What is the proper division of authority between judge and jury The information contained in Gordan's book provides a much-needed historically accurate basis from which to answer that question." -- MAEVA MARCUS The George Washington University Law School. unknown books
2017323782017. ISBN-13:9781584771821; ISBN-10: 1584771828. A Classic Treatise on International Maritime Law Grotius Hugo. The Freedom of the Seas or The Right which Belongs to the Dutch to Take Part in the East Indian Trade. Translated with a Revision of the Latin Text of 1633 by Ralph van Deman Magoffin. Edited with an Introductory Note by James Brown Scott. Originally published: New York: Oxford University Press 1916. xv 79 79 81-83 pp. Main text paged in duplicate with translation and original Latin text on facing leaves total 182 pp. Reprinted 2001 2017 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584771821; ISBN-10: 1584771828. Hardcover. New. $22.95 Translation of Grotius' work Mare Liberum with Latin and English on facing pages. This groundbreaking work was commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to dispute the monopoly on East Indian trade routes claimed by the Portuguese. It argues that the seas are international territory open to all nations thus rejecting the idea that any area of the seas could belong to a country. An instant classic it received a great deal of attention when it was published in 1609. Perhaps the most important reply is John Selden's Mare Clausum 1635 which defends British claims to sovereignty over the coastal waters of the British Isles. HUGO GROTIUS 1583-1645 a pre-eminent contributor to international legal doctrine was an influential Dutch jurist philosopher and theologian. Grotius is also known for De Jure Belli ac Pacis On the Law of War and Peace originally published in 1625 which is widely considered to be the first master treatise on international law and De Jure Praedae 1604 in which he argues against territorial sovereignty of the seas. unknown books
2004382732004. ISBN-13: 9781584774136; ISBN-10: 1584774134. Morris William Alfred. The Frankpledge System. Originally published: New York: Longmans Green and Co. 1910. xvi 194 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774136; ISBN-10: 1584774134. Smythe sewn cloth hardcover. New. $23.95 A system that originated in Saxon England frankpledge was a promise of good conduct given to a sovereign by a group of ten freeholders or tithing. If a member of the tithing committed an offense the others acted as bail to ensure that he would appear in court. If the offender fled the other members would be penalized. First published in 1910 Morris' detailed history remains the standard work on this subject. unknown books
2002324072002. ISBN-13: 9781584772026; ISBN-10 1584772026. Coke Sir Edward. The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Concerning The Jurisdiction of Courts. Originally published: London: Printed for W. Clarke and Sons 1817. xiv 1 364 49 pp. Paging irregular; star-paged to 1681 folio edition. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584772026; ISBN-10: 1584772026. Hardcover. New. $49.95 Reprint of the last and best edition with Butler and Hargrave's notes and with mistakes corrected from the 1681 folio edition. For this Institute Coke gathered miscellaneous materials that were not in the first three Institutes and included translations of ancient statutes that appeared in the earlier Institutes in the original Latin or Law French with notes and references to later authorities cited by Butler and Hargrave. The Fourth Part outlines the authority and jurisdictions of the Court of Star-Chamber Kings Court Chancery the Court of Common Pleas Ecclesiastical Courts Courts of Exchequer Augmentations Admiralty the Justices Assise Courts in Universities of Cambridge and Oxford Court of the Commissioners Upon the Statute of Bankrupts the Marshalsea the Stannaries the Eighteen Courts of the City of London the Court of Pipowders concerning Markets and Fairs the Courts of the Forest Countries various ecclesiastical courts and many more. unknown books
2004407652004. ISBN-13: 9781584774631; ISBN-10: 1584774630. Collins Charles Wallace. The Fourteenth Amendment and the States: A Study of the Operation of the Restraint Clauses of Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Originally published: Boston: Little Brown and Company 1912. xxi 220 pp. includes tables and diagrams. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774631. ISBN-10: 1584774630. Hardcover. New. $24.95 Collins examines the origins of the amendment and the way its scope was enlarged over time. He argues that it has failed to protect African-Americans and that its application in extra-racial matters has led to excessive litigation and harmful restrictions on the states. "This book is interesting throughout; but perhaps the most striking parts are those in which the author gives the figures as to the number of cases their nature and their geographical distribution.": Harvard Law Review 26:664-665 cited in Marke A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University 1953 408. unknown books
2014615182014. ISBN-13: 9781616193935. ISBN-10: 161619393X. Laski Harold J. The Foundations of Sovereignty and Other Essays. Originally published: New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1921. xi iii 317 pp. Reprinted 2014 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616193935. ISBN-10: 161619393X. Paperback. New. $23.95 This influential study develops aspects of his theory of the state ideas he introduced in his first important publication Authority in the Modern State 1919. According to Laski the state is not a supreme entity but is rather one association among many that must compete for the people's loyalty and obedience. unknown books
