Author: Alexander Mansfield BURRILL
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Languages : en
Pages : 738
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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: containing full definitions of the principal terms of the common and civil law, together with translations and explanations of the various technical phrases in different languages ... embracing also all the principal common and civil law maxims. Compiled on the basis of Spelman's glossary, and adapted to the jurisprudence of the United States, etc
Author: Alexander Mansfield BURRILL
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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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A Law Dictionary and Glossary
Author: Alexander Mansfield Burrill
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Category : Dictionaries, Law
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Category : Dictionaries, Law
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
The Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon
Author: Robert Francis Harper
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584770031
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Originally published: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1904.
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584770031
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Originally published: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1904.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Author: Alexander Mansfield Burrill
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363323
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Burrill, Alexander M. A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the Principal Terms of the Common and Civil Law, Together with Translations and Explanations of the Various Technical Phrases in Different Languages, Occurring in the Ancient and Modern Reports, and Standard Treatises; Embracing Also All the Principal Common and Civil Law Maxims. Compiled on the Basis of Spelman's Glossary, and Adapted to the Jurisprudence of the United States; with Copious Illustrations, Critical and Historical. New York: John S. Voorhies, 1850-1851. Two volumes. xviii, 1099 pp. Reprinted 1998 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 97-38481. ISBN 1-886363-32-3. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of the first edition. A scarce, important original American dictionary by a student of James Kent. Burrill [1807-1869] was admitted to the New York Bar in 1828. Burrill was highly regarded for his legal scholarship. Dictionary of American Biography describes this as "a work of very high standard, which at once took its place as perhaps the best book of its kind so far produced...All his books were distinguished for their graceful style and a scholarly precision and finish which earned the unstinted commendation of the judiciary. In addition their accuracy of statement and definition was fully recognized at the time by the profession at large" (II:326).
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363323
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Burrill, Alexander M. A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the Principal Terms of the Common and Civil Law, Together with Translations and Explanations of the Various Technical Phrases in Different Languages, Occurring in the Ancient and Modern Reports, and Standard Treatises; Embracing Also All the Principal Common and Civil Law Maxims. Compiled on the Basis of Spelman's Glossary, and Adapted to the Jurisprudence of the United States; with Copious Illustrations, Critical and Historical. New York: John S. Voorhies, 1850-1851. Two volumes. xviii, 1099 pp. Reprinted 1998 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 97-38481. ISBN 1-886363-32-3. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of the first edition. A scarce, important original American dictionary by a student of James Kent. Burrill [1807-1869] was admitted to the New York Bar in 1828. Burrill was highly regarded for his legal scholarship. Dictionary of American Biography describes this as "a work of very high standard, which at once took its place as perhaps the best book of its kind so far produced...All his books were distinguished for their graceful style and a scholarly precision and finish which earned the unstinted commendation of the judiciary. In addition their accuracy of statement and definition was fully recognized at the time by the profession at large" (II:326).
Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters
Author: Claude Hermann Walter Johns
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Category : Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
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Category : Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln, the Lawyer-statesman
Author: John Thomas Richards
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363943
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Richards, John T. Abraham Lincoln The Lawyer-Statesman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Frontis. Illustrated. xii, 260 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-20587. ISBN-13: 978-1-886363-94-6. ISBN-10: 1-886363-94-3. Cloth. $65.* An examination that examines Lincoln's role as a lawyer and his approach to the law and judiciary. In so doing the work corrects the myths regarding Lincoln's stand on the South, his position on the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, and his overall skill as a lawyer and orator. Well illustrated, with one foldout. Also includes a list of cases where Lincoln appeared as counsel in the Illinois Supreme Court.
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363943
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Richards, John T. Abraham Lincoln The Lawyer-Statesman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Frontis. Illustrated. xii, 260 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-20587. ISBN-13: 978-1-886363-94-6. ISBN-10: 1-886363-94-3. Cloth. $65.* An examination that examines Lincoln's role as a lawyer and his approach to the law and judiciary. In so doing the work corrects the myths regarding Lincoln's stand on the South, his position on the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, and his overall skill as a lawyer and orator. Well illustrated, with one foldout. Also includes a list of cases where Lincoln appeared as counsel in the Illinois Supreme Court.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Author: Frederic Jesup Stimson
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363706
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Stimson, Frederic Jesup. Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1881. iv, 305pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 98-50813. ISBN 1-886363-70-6. Cloth. $60. * The terms in this glossary include those relating to civil and canon law, and provide precise definitions based on the common law of England. By the author of American Statute Law and several works on private rights and state and federal constitutions.
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363706
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Stimson, Frederic Jesup. Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1881. iv, 305pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 98-50813. ISBN 1-886363-70-6. Cloth. $60. * The terms in this glossary include those relating to civil and canon law, and provide precise definitions based on the common law of England. By the author of American Statute Law and several works on private rights and state and federal constitutions.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Author: Alexander Mansfield Burrill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Author:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Essays in Law and History
Author: Sir William Searle Holdsworth
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363137
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
xv, 302 pp. Originally published: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1946. Compiled and edited by A.L. Goodhart and H.G. Hanbury, editors of the last four volumes of Holdsworth's History of English Law, this volume presents a selection of seventeen essays by the great legal scholar. Highlights from his long and prolific career, they address such topics as martial law, the English constitution, case law, equity, trusts, libel, law reporting, contracts and land law. "These essays tend to enlarge the mind and to stir the imagination. They are the work of one of the most distinguished of the great line of English legal historians." --Bernard L. Shientag, Columbia Law Review 47 (1947) 1255 WILLIAM S. HOLDSWORTH [1871-1944] was a professor of constitutional law at Cambridge from 1903-1908 and the Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford from 1922-1944. He is well-known for his monumental History of English Law (1st ed. 1908) and other works, such as Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian (1929) and Some Makers of English Law (1938). ARTHUR LEHMAN GOODHARD [1891-1978] was an American-born British academic jurist and lawyer. He was editor of the Cambridge Law Journal from 1921 to 1925, editor the Law Quarterly Review in 1926, a professor of jurisprudence at Oxford University from 1931-1951 and the first American to be the master of an Oxford College. HAROLD GREVILLE HANBURY [1898-1993] was a Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1921-1949 and All Souls College, Oxford, from 1949-1964. His works include Modern Equity: Being the Principles of Equity (1935), The Principles of Agency (1952) and The Vinerian Chair and Legal Education (1958).
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363137
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
xv, 302 pp. Originally published: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1946. Compiled and edited by A.L. Goodhart and H.G. Hanbury, editors of the last four volumes of Holdsworth's History of English Law, this volume presents a selection of seventeen essays by the great legal scholar. Highlights from his long and prolific career, they address such topics as martial law, the English constitution, case law, equity, trusts, libel, law reporting, contracts and land law. "These essays tend to enlarge the mind and to stir the imagination. They are the work of one of the most distinguished of the great line of English legal historians." --Bernard L. Shientag, Columbia Law Review 47 (1947) 1255 WILLIAM S. HOLDSWORTH [1871-1944] was a professor of constitutional law at Cambridge from 1903-1908 and the Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford from 1922-1944. He is well-known for his monumental History of English Law (1st ed. 1908) and other works, such as Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian (1929) and Some Makers of English Law (1938). ARTHUR LEHMAN GOODHARD [1891-1978] was an American-born British academic jurist and lawyer. He was editor of the Cambridge Law Journal from 1921 to 1925, editor the Law Quarterly Review in 1926, a professor of jurisprudence at Oxford University from 1931-1951 and the first American to be the master of an Oxford College. HAROLD GREVILLE HANBURY [1898-1993] was a Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1921-1949 and All Souls College, Oxford, from 1949-1964. His works include Modern Equity: Being the Principles of Equity (1935), The Principles of Agency (1952) and The Vinerian Chair and Legal Education (1958).