Author: Georgia
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Category : Court rules
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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A Compilation of the Penal Code of the State of Georgia
Author: Georgia
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Category : Court rules
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Court rules
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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A Compilation of Words and Phrases
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Finding-list of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Georgia and Georgians
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia, Passed by the General Assembly Since the Year 1819 to the Year 1829, Inclusive
Author: Georgia
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Compilation of Laws of the Several States Relating to Outdoor Advertising
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Category : Advertising laws
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Category : Advertising laws
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Homicide Justified
Author: Andrew Fede
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820351121
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases--across time, place, and circumstance--to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters' rights to severely punish and even kill their slaves while protecting valuable enslaved people, understood as "property," from wanton destruction by hirers, overseers, and poor whites who did not own slaves. To explore the conflicts of masters' rights with state and colonial laws, Fede shows how slave homicide law evolved and was enforced not only in the United States but also in ancient Roman, Visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British jurisdictions. His comparative approach reveals how legal reforms regarding slave homicide in antebellum times, like past reforms dictated by emperors and kings, were the products of changing perceptions of the interests of the public; of the individual slave owners; and of the slave owners' families, heirs, and creditors. Although some slave murders came to be regarded as capital offenses, the laws con-sistently reinforced the second-class status of slaves. This influence, Fede concludes, flowed over into the application of law to free African Americans and would even make itself felt in the legal attitudes that underlay the Jim Crow era.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820351121
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases--across time, place, and circumstance--to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common occurrence. These laws had evolved to limit in different ways the masters' rights to severely punish and even kill their slaves while protecting valuable enslaved people, understood as "property," from wanton destruction by hirers, overseers, and poor whites who did not own slaves. To explore the conflicts of masters' rights with state and colonial laws, Fede shows how slave homicide law evolved and was enforced not only in the United States but also in ancient Roman, Visigoth, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British jurisdictions. His comparative approach reveals how legal reforms regarding slave homicide in antebellum times, like past reforms dictated by emperors and kings, were the products of changing perceptions of the interests of the public; of the individual slave owners; and of the slave owners' families, heirs, and creditors. Although some slave murders came to be regarded as capital offenses, the laws con-sistently reinforced the second-class status of slaves. This influence, Fede concludes, flowed over into the application of law to free African Americans and would even make itself felt in the legal attitudes that underlay the Jim Crow era.
A Degraded Caste of Society
Author: Andrew T. Fede
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820374563
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
A Degraded Caste of Society traces the origins of twenty-first-century cases of interracial violence to the separate and unequal protection principles of the criminal law of enslavement in the southern United States. Andrew T. Fede explains how antebellum appellate court opinions and statutes, when read in a context that includes newspaper articles and trial court and census records, extended this doctrine to the South’s free Black people, consigning them to what South Carolina justice John Belton O’Neall called “a degraded caste of society,” in which they were “in no respect, on a perfect equality with the white man.” This written law either criminalized Black insolence or privileged private white interracial violence, which became a badge of slavery that continued to influence the law in action, contrary to the Constitution’s mandate of equal protection of the criminal law. The U.S. Supreme Court enabled this denial of equal justice, as did Congress, which did not make all private white racially motivated violence a crime until 2009, when it adopted the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Fede’s analysis supports that law’s constitutionality under the Thirteenth Amendment, while suggesting why—during the Jim Crow era and beyond—equal protection of the criminal law was not always realized, and why the curse of interracial violence has been a lingering badge of slavery.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820374563
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
A Degraded Caste of Society traces the origins of twenty-first-century cases of interracial violence to the separate and unequal protection principles of the criminal law of enslavement in the southern United States. Andrew T. Fede explains how antebellum appellate court opinions and statutes, when read in a context that includes newspaper articles and trial court and census records, extended this doctrine to the South’s free Black people, consigning them to what South Carolina justice John Belton O’Neall called “a degraded caste of society,” in which they were “in no respect, on a perfect equality with the white man.” This written law either criminalized Black insolence or privileged private white interracial violence, which became a badge of slavery that continued to influence the law in action, contrary to the Constitution’s mandate of equal protection of the criminal law. The U.S. Supreme Court enabled this denial of equal justice, as did Congress, which did not make all private white racially motivated violence a crime until 2009, when it adopted the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Fede’s analysis supports that law’s constitutionality under the Thirteenth Amendment, while suggesting why—during the Jim Crow era and beyond—equal protection of the criminal law was not always realized, and why the curse of interracial violence has been a lingering badge of slavery.
Compilation of State and Federal Privacy Laws
Author: Robert Ellis Smith
Publisher: Privacy Journal
ISBN: 9780930072179
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher: Privacy Journal
ISBN: 9780930072179
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the State of Georgia
Author: Georgia. Attorney-General's Office
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Category : Attorneys general's opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Category : Attorneys general's opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Compilation of War Laws of the Various States and Insular Possessions
Author: United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate General
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Category : Military law
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Category : Military law
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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