Modern American law : a systematic and comprehensive commentary on the fundamental principles of American law / prepared by judges, members of the bar, teachers in law schools, and writers on legal subjects, under the editorial supervision of Eugene Allen Gilmore, assisted by William Charles Wermuth.
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Publication details:
Chicago : Blackstone Institute, 1921.
Record id:
61045
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Subject:
Law -- United States.
Criminal law -- United States.
Civil procedure -- United States.
Commercial law -- United States.
Procedure (Law) -- United States.
Contents:
v. I. General introduction
The citizen and the law
Law : its origin, nature, development
Contracts
v. 2. Agency
Sales of personal property
Personal property and bailments
v. 3. Negotiable instruments
Suretyship and guaranty
Liens and pledges
Mortgages: real and chattel
v. 4. Private corporations
Partnership
v. 5. Descent and distribution; Wills and adminstration; Guardian and ward
Insurance
Employers' liability and workmen's compensation
v. 6. Persons and domestic relations
Quasi-contacts
Landlord and tenant
Taxation
v. 7. Public service companies, common carriers
Public officers and elections
Municipal corporations
v. 8. Trusts and trustees
Receivers
Bankruptcy
Damages
v. 9. Real property
v. 10. Patents
Trademarks
Copyright
Unfair competition and good-will
Banks, banking and trust companies
Conflict of laws
Interstate commerce
v. 11. Equitable rights and remedies
Attachment and garnishment
Judgments and executions
Parliamentary law
Naturalization
v. 12. Torts
v. 13. Pleadings in civil actions at common law and under modern statutes
Practice in civil actions
Equity pleading
Extraordinary remedies
Habeas corpus
Interpretation of statutes
v. 14. Courts: federal and state
Evidence
International law
v. 15. Criminal Law
Criminal procedure
Medical jurisprudence
v. 16. Constitutional law: definitions and general principles
Organization and powers of the United States government
Constitutional guaranties of fundamental rights
Eminent domain
v. 17. Estoppel
Irrigation and water rights
Mines and mining
Admiralty law
Legal ethics
Practice forms
v. 18. Blackstone's commentaries
v. 19-25. Leading illustrative cases.
Note:
Each volume has special t.p.
"1928 edition"--v. 25, T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Variant title:
HeinOnline Legal Classics Library collection.
Phys. description:
25 v. : forms ; 21 cm