Author: William Wheeler ThorntonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic animals
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Law of Railroad Fences and Private Crossings
Author: William Wheeler ThorntonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic animals
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of Railroads
Author: Byron Kosciusko ElliottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law Relating to the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace and Constables, in the State of Ohio
Author: Joseph Rockwell SwanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constables
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of Railways
Author: David RorerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law Arising Before Justices of the Peace and in Business Transactions
Author: Joseph Rockwell SwanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
A Treatise on the Laws of Ohio Pertaining to the Powers and Duties of and Practice and Procedure Before Justices of the Peace
Author: Joseph Rockwell SwanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
Book Description
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.
A Treatise on the Law of Railroads: Operation
Author: Byron Kosciusko ElliottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Lawyers' Reports Annotated
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
A Treatise on the Laws of Ohio Pertaining to the Powers and Duties of and Practice and Procedure Before Justices of the Peace, Also as to the Powers and Duties of Mayors, Marshals, Constables, Coroners, Trustees of Townships, Etc., Also as to All Legal Questions that Ordinarily Arise Between Parties in Business Transactions Or Because of Personal Relations, Containing Practical Forms in Proceedings in Civil Actions, Arrest, Attachment, Arbitration and Award, Replevin, Conveyancing, Contracts, Wills, Etc., Etc
Author: Joseph Rockwell SwanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
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