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Category : Corporation law
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The Railway and Corporation Law Journal
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Category : Corporation law
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Corporation law
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Acts Passed at the ... General Assembly of the State of Tennessee
Author: Tennessee
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Public and Private Acts Passed at the Session of the General Assembly
Author: Tennessee
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: United States. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
Book Description
First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
Book Description
First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.
Annual Report
Author: Virginia. State Corporation Commission
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
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The Southeastern Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
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Public Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed at the General Assembly
Author: Tennessee
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Includes: Private acts of the state of Tennessee passed at the General Assembly.
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Includes: Private acts of the state of Tennessee passed at the General Assembly.
Poor's Manual of Railroads
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 2516
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 2516
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Charter of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company
Author: Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway
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Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Railroads and American Law
Author: James W. Ely, Jr.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700611444
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900) At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system. James W. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions-the railroad and American law-had a profound influence on each other. Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of new laws in a country where long-distance internal transport had previously been limited to canals and turnpikes. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Much of this development was originally designed to serve the interests of the railroads themselves but gradually came to contest and control the industry's power and exploitative tendencies. As Ely reveals, despite its great promise and potential as an engine of prosperity and uniter of far-flung regions, the railroad was not universally admired. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike-situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail. Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700611444
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900) At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system. James W. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions-the railroad and American law-had a profound influence on each other. Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of new laws in a country where long-distance internal transport had previously been limited to canals and turnpikes. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Much of this development was originally designed to serve the interests of the railroads themselves but gradually came to contest and control the industry's power and exploitative tendencies. As Ely reveals, despite its great promise and potential as an engine of prosperity and uniter of far-flung regions, the railroad was not universally admired. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike-situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail. Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.