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  • Dictionary of Statutory Interpretation

    Dictionary of Statutory Interpretation In the introduction to this legal Dictionary, the author believes that, whatever the “merits of the descriptive vs. prescriptive debate regarding ordinary dictionaries, the task for a specialized legal dictionary is clear. It must be both descriptive and prescriptive. It must be descriptive in order to provide a complete picture of…

  • Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History

    Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History Bibliographic Details Title: Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History ISBN: 9780195134056 Author: Katz, Stanley N. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Subject: Legal History, Historical jurisprudence. Series Volume: 6 Volume-set Publication Date: 2009-04-17 Language: English Pages: 3072 Review of Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History Publisher Comments The Oxford International…

  • List of Authors to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

    List of Authors to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Main Entries: List of Entries and Authors of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Listing of entries to the Encyclopedia by Author: Benjamin Aaron Professor of Law, Emeritus University of California, Los Angeles LABOR AND THE ANTITRUST LAWS Henry J.…

  • List of Entries and Authors of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

    List of Articles and Contributors of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Main Entry: the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. List of Authors by Entry (A-Z): ADEQUATE STATE GROUNDS Kenneth L. Karst ADKINS V. CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Leonard W. Levy ADLER V. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF CITY OF NEW YORK Martin Shapiro ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES Joseph Vining…

  • List of Law Report Abbreviations in the 19th Century

    Abbreviations Law Reports List List of Law report abbreviations in the 19th Century This List of Law report abbreviations in the 19th Century is based mainly from several resources, including the “American and English Law and Equity Reports and their Abbreviations” list at the end of the Ballantine Dictionary A. ft E.-Adolphus and Ellis Reports,…

  • Unwritten Law

    Common Law: Reporting the Unwritten LawCommon law has been known as unwritten law, because it is not collected in a single source. Reports of the judicial decisions from which the common law was derived were only occasionally circulated from the 12th to the 16th century. Starting in the 17t…

  • List of Construction Law Abbreviations of Reports

    List of Construction Law Abbreviations of Reports AC, App Cas Law reports, Appeal Cases ALJR Australian Law Journal Reports All ER All England Law Reports B & Ad Barnwall and Adolphus ’ s Reports B & S Best and Smith ’ s Reports BCL Building and Construction Law Beav Beavan ’ s Reports BLM Building…

  • List of Construction Law Abbreviations of Reports

    List of Construction Law Abbreviations of Reports AC, App Cas Law reports, Appeal Cases ALJR Australian Law Journal Reports All ER All England Law Reports B & Ad Barnwall and Adolphus ’ s Reports B & S Best and Smith ’ s Reports BCL Building and Construction Law Beav Beavan ’ s Reports BLM Building…

  • Wolters Kluwer Bouvier Law Dictionary

    Wolters Kluwer Bouvier Law Dictionary Bibliographic Details Main Editor: Stephen Michael Sheppard. Format: Book and Electronic Format Language: English Call Number: Published: Wolters Kluwer, 2011 Introduction This dictionary is directly based on the sixth edition (1856) of John Bouvier’s law dictionary, which was the first major legal dictionary of the United States. But is “an…

  • Wolters Kluwer Bouvier Law Dictionary

    Wolters Kluwer Bouvier Law Dictionary Bibliographic Details Main Editor: Stephen Michael Sheppard. Format: Book and Electronic Format Language: English Call Number: Published: Wolters Kluwer, 2011 Introduction This dictionary is directly based on the sixth edition (1856) of John Bouvier’s law dictionary, which was the first major legal dictionary of the United States. But is “an…

  • Edward Henry Carson

    Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson (9 February 1854, Dublin, Ireland 22 October 1935, Kent, England), often known as Sir Edward Carson or Lord Carson. British statesman and lawyer, son of Edward Henry Carson, C.E., Dublin, was educated at Portarlington school and afterwards at Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the Irish bar, and made…

  • The Year Books

    The Year Books, precursors of Law Reports The Year Books were the law reports of medieval England. They are the principal source materials for the development of legal doctrines in the English courts from the late 13th century (earliest examples date from about 1268) to 1535 (the last in the printed series). Many (more than…

  • Sei Fujii v. the State of California

    SEI FUJII v. THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Supreme Court of California 38 Cal. 2d 718; 242 P.2d 617 Decided: April 17, 1952 Justice GIBSON Plaintiff, an alien Japanese who is ineligible to citizenship under our naturalization laws, appeals from a judgment declaring that certain land purchased by him in 1948 had escheated to the state.…

  • Bouvie’s Law Dictionary and Institutes of American Law

    Bouvier’s Law Dictionary and Institutes of American Law Review of Bouvier’s Law Dictionary and “Institutes of American Law” This review was written in “North American Review”(July, 1861) by S. Austin Allibone, author of “the Dictionary of Authors” The author of these volumes taught lawyers by his books, but he taught all men by his example,…

  • Catalogue of Court Reports

    Catalogue of Court Reports I n the United States Nominative Reporter Table Reporter Nominative Citation U.S. Reports Citation Terms A.J. Dallas 1-4 Dall. 1-4 U.S. 1790-1800 William Cranch 1-9 Cranch 5-13 U.S. 1801-1815 Henry Wheaton 1-12 Wheat 14-25 U.S. 1816-1827 Richard Peters 1-16 Pet. 26-41 U.S. 1828-1842 Benjamin C. Howard 1-24 How. 42-65 U.S. 1843-1860…