The Whole Proceedings on the Trial Against John Stockdale
by Joseph Gurney
Lawyers and non-lawyers alike fell delightedly on the authors' previous collection of ridiculous excerpts from actual court cases. Now Rodney R. Jones and Gerald F. Uelmen return with an all-new assortment of unintentionally amusing incidents from legal cases of all kinds, including folly in the Supreme Court itself.
It Takes Two Judges to Try a Cow and Other Strange Leg Twists
by Eric Chadak and Barry Seltler
Reports of Cases in the Court of Chancery in the Time of Queen Anne (1702 to 1714) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
Reports of Cases in the Court of Chancery from 1660 to 1673 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
A comprehensive collection of all known Chancery reports in this time period. This edition of Chancery cases from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the beginning of the juridical tenure of Lord Nottingham in 1673 includes all of the Chancery reports, both in print and in manuscript, known to date from this period. It also adds to the Chancery canon the law reports included in Lord Nottingham's prolegomena. These reports come from the judicial tenures of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon,...
From a manuscript that was lost for more than half a century comes new information about one of the greatest Jewish communities of all time. The court diaries of Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim (d. 1795), a member of the rabbinic court of late eighteenth-century Frankfurt, shed light on daily life in the Judengasse("Jewish lane"), home to over 3,000 people, including Meyer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the famous banking family. Familial quarrels, squabbles between neighbors, legal proceedings over bu...
The Order Of Proceeding In The Public Funeral Of The Late Field-Marshal Arthur Duke Of Wellington (1852)
On Record provides descriptive accounts of record-keeping in a variety of important organizations: schools and universities; consumer credit agencies, general business organizations, and life insurance companies; military and security agencies; the Census Bureau and the Social Security Administration; public welfare agencies, juvenile courts, and mental hospitals. It also examines the legal status of records. The authors address questions such as: Who determines what records are kept? Who has a...
Treatise on the Origin and Nature of Dignities, or Titles of Honor
by William Cruise
The Institution and Proceedings of the Society of the Cincinnati (1812)
by Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati
