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Abdy,
J.T. and Bryan Walker.
The Commentaries of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian. Translated
with Notes by J.T. Abdy and Bryan Walker. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1885. xxvi, 501 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook
Exchange Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-548-3. Cloth. $95.
* In Latin with a parallel English
translation. The Gaii Institutionum Juris Civilis Commentarii
Quatuor, or Institutes of Gaius, was compiled around 161
CE. It is a deeply influential elementary textbook on Roman private
law. Well-arranged and clearly written, it was the standard textbook
for the next 300 years. One of the five authorities accepted by
Justinian, it is the primary source of the Institutes. It was
also the basis of the Breviarium Alaricianum, or Lex
Romana Visigothorum. Gaius [c.115-180] was a teacher and writer
who probably lived in Rome. The Tituli ex Corpore Ulpiani,
also known as the Epitome Ulpiani, Regulae Ulpiani or
Rules of Ulpian is a collection of legal rules attributed to
Ulpian [c.160-228 CE], who is considered to be the last great
classical Roman jurist. Many of the rules in this collection are
similar to those in Gaius, and it is fruitful to have both works in
the same volume for the purposes of comparison and clarification.  
Ames,
Herman V., Editor.
State Documents on Federal Relations: The States and the United
States. Philadelphia: Department of History of the University
of Pennsylvania, 1906. 320 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange,
Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-558-4. ISBN-10: 1-58477-558-0. Cloth.
$85.
* This work, focusing on the years
1789-1861, "comprises typical papers covering the official action of
various states in different sections of the country, relative to the
chief political and constitutional issues in our history. The
documents have been selected especially with a view to illustrate
the development of the doctrines of broad and strict construction,
the prevalence of the 'compact theory' of the Constitution and the
doctrine of 'State Rights,' State opposition to the Federal
Judiciary, and the different phases of the slavery controversy,
culminating in the secession movement.": Preface.
Angell,
Joseph K., and Samuel Ames. [Lathrop, John, Editor].
Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations Aggregate.
Revised, Corrected and Enlarged. Boston: Little, Brown and Company,
1861. lvi, 810 pp. Reprinted 2004 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 1-58477-473-8. Cloth. $175.
* Reprint of the seventh edition. The
first American treatise on the subject, it departed from English
models to address the unique characteristics of the American
corporation in the years after 1815, an era of unprecedented growth
that was encouraged by the courts. It was the standard treatise of
its day. In his Legal Bibliography (1847) Marvin says it was
"undoubtedly the best work...an American lawyer can possess" and
notes that "Chancellor Kent highly recommends the book" (63). The
first edition was published in 1832; the final edition was published
in 1882. The seventh edition is desirable because it summarizes the
state of the field before it was revolutionized by the Civil War
economy and the rise of modern corporate capitalism after 1865.
Angell,
Joseph K[innicut] [1794-1857].
A Treatise on the Right of Property in Tide Waters, and in
the Soil and Shores Thereof. Boston: Charles C. Little and
James Brown, 1847. xvi, 295, [1], cxlvi, [1], [463]-475 pp. Reprint
available June 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange. ISBN 1-58477-557-2.
Cloth. $95.
* Reprint of the "revised, corrected and
enlarged" second edition. Topics covered in this classic work
include Roman, English and American laws on the right of property in
the sea, rights acquirable in salt and tide waters by prescription,
custom and grant and the right of those who own land adjoining
shores to make embankments, such as wharves. Reviewing the first
edition (1826), Marvin observed that it was the first book on the
subject since Hale's De Jure Maris et Brachiorum Ejusdem,
then commended it as "a work that was much needed" and "a valuable
contribution to our jurisprudence.": Legal Bibliography
(1847) 62.
Attenborough,
F.L., Editor and Translator.
The Laws of the Earliest English Kings. Cambridge: University
Press, 1922. xi, 256 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange,
Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-583-6. ISBN-10: 1-58477-583-1. Cloth.
$85.
* The most impressive contribution to
the bibliography of Anglo-Saxon legal sources since Thorpe and
Liebermann, this edition contains the texts of the Kentish laws, the
laws of Ine and Alfred the Great, treaties with the Danes, and the
laws of Edward the Elder and Aethelstan. The texts are in
Anglo-Saxon with English translations. (Latin texts are used if the
Anglo-Saxon originals were lost.) "Mr. Attenborough has done a very
useful work in providing a critical translation of the Anglo-Saxon
dooms for English-speaking students who are unable, or do not go far
enough to find it needful, to make use of Liebermann's great and
apparently final edition. Not that advanced scholars can afford to
neglect Mr. Attenborough, for he shows himself fully capable of
independent judgement and makes many observations deserving their
attention": Frederick Pollock, Law Quarterly Review 38 (1922)
511.
Austin,
John. Lectures
on Jurisprudence or the Philosophy of Positive Law. Fifth Edition,
Revised and Edited by Robert Campbell. London: John Murray,
1885. Two volumes. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 1-58477-429-0. Cloth. $250.
* Reprint of the fifth edition of
Austin's magnum opus. Austin [1790-1859] was the founder of
English analytical jurisprudence and the first to subject the law to
inductive analysis. First published in 1861, this work is a landmark
in the development of modern legal thought. Its most important
contributions were the strict delimitation of law and its
distinction from morality, elaboration of the idea of law as a kind
of command and the close examination of such common legal terms as
right, duty, liberty, injury and punishment. The editions edited by
Campbell had a profound influence on Anglo-American jurisprudential
thinking. This is especially true of this edition, which is widely
regarded as the best.
Ayusawa,
Iwao Frederick.
International Labor Legislation. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1920. 258 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 1-58477-461-4. Cloth. $80.
* A study of the history and progress of
international labor agreements, treaties, conventions and congresses
that resulted in labor legislation with international applicability
or influence on international commercial practices by a Japanese
scholar. Ayusawa begins with the origins of international labor
legislation in the early nineteenth-century and concludes with an
analysis of the 1919 Washington Conference. Important for its
historical perspective, this study shows that the central issues of
globalization debated today, such as the international community's
right to demand changes in local labor practices, are the same ones
that affected its first phase during the late-nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Originally published as Volume XCI, Number 2 in
Columbia's series Studies in History, Economics and Public Law.
Azuni,
D[omenico] A[lberto] [1749-1827].
The Maritime Law of Europe. Translated from the French
[by William Johnson]. New York: Printed by George Forman for
I. Riley & Co., 1806. Two volumes. xxxii, 424; viii, 430,
[1]pp. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-651-2. ISBN-10: 1-58477-651-X. Reprinted
2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Cloth. $180.
* Reprint of the first and only American
edition and only edition in the English language. This systematic
work on the maritime law of Europe, of great influence on the prize
laws relating to the legality of the capture of goods and vessels at
sea, as well as for the analysis of Rhodian laws and the Consolato
del Mare. D.A. Azuni was an Italian jurist and a writer on
mercantile law who later became a French citizen and then president
of the appeal court at Genoa and judge of the Commercial Court at
Cagliari. First published in Italian in 1795-6 (Sistema
universale dei principii del diritto marittimo dell'Europa)
Azuni's treatise "relates rather to maritime international law,
properly so called, than to private maritime jurisprudence... It
points out what is always of the highest importance to the diligent
inquirer after truth, the sources of information upon maritime
jurisprudence... The English translation from the French, by William
Johnson is excellent, and his notes show a familiarity and accurate
acquaintance with legal and classical antiquities.": Marvin,
Legal Bibliography (1847) 82.
Bacon,
Matthew. Wilson, Bird, Editor.
A New Abridgment of the Law: With Considerable Additions, by
Henry Gwyllim. With the Addition of the Later English, and the
American Decisions. Philadelphia: Farrand and Nicholas, 1811.
Seven volumes. Reprint available August 2006 by the Lawbook Exchange,
Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-523-8. Cloth. $995.
* First American edition, from the sixth
London edition. Bacon's Abridgment is a digest of cases as
well as a compilation of treatises written by Sir Jeffrey Gilbert
and gathered by Bacon [fl. 1730] for the first edition published in
London in 1736. However, Bacon lived long enough only to carry the
work up to "Sheriff;" the remainder was added by the original
English editors Joseph Sayer [fl. 1750] and Owen Ruffhead
[1723-1769]. In frequent use by practitioners of the era, its
importance is attested to by the many editions the work enjoyed. Its
comprehensiveness and, still more, the logical system of
subdivisions employed within each title, placed it far above all
previous compendia of its kind, and made it, according to Marvin's
Legal Bibliography (1847), "...quite a law library in itself"
(85). This edition contains additions and notes by Bird Wilson
[1777-1859], Pennsylvania jurist and son of James Wilson.
Ball,
F. Elrington. The
Judges in Ireland, 1221-1921. London: John Murray. [1926].
2 volumes, each with frontispiece. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook
Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-428-2. Cloth. $195.
* "These interesting volumes serve a
double purpose; they supply condensed biographies (in the style of
the Dictionary of National Biography) of all who held judicial
office in Ireland from the earliest days down to the new
constitution, with references to sources and chronological tables.
In short, they are the Irish counterpart to Foss's book, The
Judges of England. And secondly, the general chapters are a
careful history of the Irish judiciary, its members, their politics
and connections, and the legal profession in general, with some
remarks upon the history of the courts in Ireland. ": T.F.T.
Plucknett, Harvard Law Review 41:275.
Ballentine,
James A., Compiler.
A Law Dictionary of Words, Terms, Abbreviations and Phrases
Which are Peculiar to the Law and of Those Which Have a Peculiar
Meaning in the Law. Containing Latin Phrases and Maxims With Their
Translations and a Table of the Names of the Reports and Their
Abbreviations. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1916].
[vi], 632 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13:
978-1-58477-490-8. ISBN-10: 1-58477-490-8. Cloth. $150.
* Reprint of the uncommon first edition.
Along with those of Black and Anderson, Ballentine's is one of the
most important American dictionaries of the modern era. Containing
over 18,000 entries and a 97-page index of American and English law
and equity reports, it is renowned for its concision and accuracy.
Immediately popular, it went through three editions by 1969 and
served as the basis of the College Law Dictionary (First
edition, 1931) and the Self-Pronouncing Law Dictionary
(1948). The 1916 edition retains its value as a handy but thorough
one-volume reference.
Barton,
William. A Dissertation
on the Freedom of Navigation and Maritime Commerce, and Such Rights
of States, Relative Thereto, as Are Founded On the Law of Nations:
Adapted More Particularly to the United States; and Interspersed
with Moral and Political Reflections, and Historical facts. With
An Appendix, Containing Sundry State Papers. Philadelphia:
John Conrad and Company, 1802. 339, xlv, [3] pp. Octavo. Reprinted
2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 1-58477-509-2. Cloth. $110.
* Reprint of the first and only edition.
Barton [1754-1817] admired Thomas Jefferson and dedicated this book
to him. Jefferson was pleased by this honor: "Accept my best wishes
for the success of your work and assurances of my high esteem and
respect" (Sowerby). One of the earliest works of its kind, Barton
presents an American interpretation of maritime law affecting
freedom of navigation and the rights of neutral merchant vessels
during times of war. Barton uses a broad overview of international
law and treaties of the Washington and Adams administrations to
criticize English interference with American shipping and the
impressment of sailors. This volume offers a contemporary
interpretation of the actions that would lead to the Non-Intercourse
and Embargo Acts (1807, 1809) and, in the following administration,
the War of 1812.
Baty,
T[homas]. International
Law. London: John Murray, 1909. 364 pp. Reprinted 2005 by
The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-5847-5638. ISBN-10:
1584775637. Cloth. New. $95.
* Baty provides a thorough review of
international incidents throughout nineteenth century Europe, the
Near East and the Americas relating to arbitration, penetration,
territorialism and similar subjects. He concludes that international
law manifested in agreements among nations would be supplanted by a
less rigid system governed by contracts. This will happen, he
reasons, due to the greater economic interdependence of nations
brought about by globalization. Anticipating the effects of
21st-century globalism, Baty concludes by outlining the ways this
interdependence will occur, and some of its potential dangers.
Baty,
T., and J.H. Morgan.
War: Its Conduct and Legal Results. New York: E.P. Dutton
and Company, 1915. xxviii, 578 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook
Exchange. ISBN 1-58477-573-4. Cloth. $95.
* The authors argue that the war has
effectively ended the existing system of international law, a system
that was already in decline due to the growing economic and
political interdependence of states. These changes have created a
new set of problems that will provide the basis of international law
when the war ends. In addition to supplying an intellectual
framework for this new system, Baty and Morgan address practical
topics like international arbitration and more abstract issues like
clash between nationalism and cosmopolitanism. "[V]ery good
reading....It is a thoughtful book.": T.S.W., Yale Law Journal
19:313-314 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at
New York University (1953) 645.
Beccaria,
[Cesare Bonesana, Marchese de].
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments, Translated from the Italian;
With a Commentary Attributed to Mons. De Voltaire, Translated
from the French. London: Printed for E. Newberry, 1775. [iv],
viii, [iv], 179, lxxix pp. Reprint available June 2006 by The
Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-638-2. Cloth. $80.
* Reprint of the fourth edition, which
contains an addition text attributed to Voltaire. Originally
published anonymously in 1764, Dei Delitti e Delle Pene was
the first systematic study of the principles of crime and
punishment. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its
advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and
capital punishment marked a significant advance in criminological
thought, which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a
profound influence on the development of criminal law in Europe and
the United States.
Benny,
Philip Berger.
The Criminal Code of the Jews, According to the Talmud.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1880. 133 pp. Reprinted 2006 by
The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-664-1. Cloth. $65.
* This study goes beyond the statutes of
the Mosaic Pentateuch to the jurisprudence of the Talmud to create a
nuanced description of Jewish criminal law. Beginning with a history
of the Mosaic code and an overview of the prescriptions of the
Talmud, this study goes on to examine the constitution of the
courts, procedure, rules of evidence, perjury, methods of punishment
and execution, the treatment of murder, adultery and idolatry and
cities of refuge.
Benton,
Elbert J. International
Law and Diplomacy of the Spanish-American War. Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins Press, 1908. 300 pp. Reprint available June
2006 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-665-X. Cloth.
$95.
* This is a most curious work as it
offers an analysis that now seems frozen in amber. Drawing on the
example of Le Fur's Etude sur la Guerre Hispano-Americaine de
1898, Envisagee au Point de Vue du Droit International Public
(1899) and similar studies, Benton set out to provide an exploration
of Spanish-American relations prior to and during the war. This work
is critical, but it leans heavily toward a pro-American point of
view. He concludes, for instance, that American military and
diplomatic objectives were achieved to varying degrees, that at the
end of the conflict Cuba was granted complete sovereignty, and that
the treaty of peace was fulfilled. Most curiously for the modern
scholar, he ends with the recognition that "the occasion of the
recent intervention provided for in the Platt Amendment is outside
the scope of this work" (291). Benton was a professor of History at
Western Reserve University.
Black,
H[enry] Campbell.
A Handbook of Bankruptcy Law: Embodying the Full Text of the
Act of Congress of 1898, and Annotated with References to Pertinent
Decisions Under Former Statutes. St. Paul: West Publishing
Co., 1898. viii, 326 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange,
Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-532-7. Cloth. $95.
* Reprint of the first edition. This
treatise contains the complete text of the important National
Bankruptcy Act of 1898 with interpretative annotations. Taken
together, they are an important document of the act's initial
reception. In these Black [1860-1927] "gives special prominence...to
the elucidation of those questions which will probably first come
before the courts for settlement--questions, that is, of
jurisdiction, of procedure, of the persons and corporations entitled
to take advantage of the law, or liable to be proceeded against
under it, and in regard to the acts of bankruptcy upon which a
petition in involuntary cases may be founded (v). A response to the
Panic of 1893, the 1898 act was the first to address the complexity
and national scope of modern industrial capitalism. Best known for
his law dictionary, Black wrote respected treatises on
constitutional law, contracts, taxation and other subjects.
Black,
Henry Campbell.
A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Bankruptcy Under The
Act of Congress of 1898 and its Amendments. Kansas City: Vernon
Law Book Company, 1922. xxiii, 1840 pp. Reprint available April
2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-606-4. Cloth.
$185.
* Reprint of the third edition. More
convenient than the extensive contemporary works of Collier or
Remington, Black's handy treatise, which uses the format of a West
Hornbook, offers a compact summary of the law as it stood in the
early 1920s. Though its size led some to suspect it was superficial,
it was generally well-received and did much to popularize the field.
As one reviewer wrote, "[i]t is to be hoped [this book] marks the
beginning of a new period in bankruptcy law that will witness its
welcoming into the repertoire of the lawyer as one of the regular
devices for regulating business relations.": Nathan Isaacs,
University of Pennsylvania Law Review 73 (1924-1925) 120.
Blakey,
Roy G., and Gladys McAlpine Campbell Blakey.
The Federal Income Tax. London, New York, Toronto: Longmans,
Green and Co., 1940. xvii, [2] 640 pp. Tables. Diagrams (one fold-out).
Reprint available June 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13:
978-1-58477-646-8. ISBN-10: 1-58477-646-3. Cloth. $125.
* This was the first book to put the
American federal income tax into its historical and political
context. Acclaimed upon publication as a necessary supplement to the
work of Seligman and Seidman, it is still an essential work. Erwin
R. Griswald was among the first to recognize this book's value. In
the Harvard Law Review he wrote "[t]here is very little in
this book that will help a lawyer win a case...[y]et there is much
of practical value, a clear picture of the forest which might
otherwise escape the lawyer bent on dissecting the trees." He
predicted correctly that "[t]here is a mass of fact and comment that
will make the book a standard work of reference for many a year to
come" (53:1218).
Blewitt,
Reginald James.
The Court of Chancery: A Satirical Poem. London: J. Kay,
1827. 106 pp. Reprint available June 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange,
Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-648-X. Cloth. $75.
* Reprint of the sole edition of a
substantial legal satire by a lawyer. With its numerous thinly
veiled references to prominent solicitors, chief clerks, magistrates
and politicians, it is an engaging satire portrait of the Chancery
courts during the age of Dickens and Trollope.
Bliss,
Philemon. Of
Sovereignty. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1885. xv,
180 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-491-6.
Cloth. $85.
* After serving on the benches of the
Dakota Territory and the Missouri Supreme Court, Bliss [1814-1889]
finished his career as the first dean of the law department of the
University of Missouri. His fascinating Of Sovereignty tries
to balance the argumentative excesses of both advocates of states'
rights and of federal supremacy. In a rigorously argued thesis that
discusses Austin, Cooley and Lieber at length, Bliss maintains that
the term sovereignty had been so overused that it had lost its
meaning. In the end sovereignty belongs to the Almighty alone;
earthly subdivisions of this power can only be based on justice and
reason.
Bohun,
William. Institutio
Legalis, Or, An Introduction to the Study and Practice of the
Laws of England: As Now Regulated and Amended by Several Late
Statutes. Divided Into Four Parts, Viz. I. The Practice of the
Court of King's Bench. II. The Practice of the Court of Common
Pleas. III. The Nature of All Actions Usually Brought in Either
of the Said Courts. IV. The Order and Method of Pleading. With
Useful Precedents Throughout; And a Compleat Table to the Whole.
Corrected and Enlarged. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt,
and R. Gosling [et. al.], 1732. viii, 610, [14] pp. Reprint available
June 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-676-5. Cloth.
$125.
* Reprint of the fourth and final
edition. Useful for its insights into the practice of the period,
this is a practical guide for the courts of King's Bench and common
pleas that gives detailed instructions about the steps to take in an
action and in making up a record. It even includes information about
proper contractions for Latin words. The main rules of pleading are
set out as bare principles. Bohun, a barrister of the Inner Temple,
wrote treatises on a variety of subjects, such as tithes, juries and
the laws of London.
Bond,
Carroll T. The
Court of Appeals of Maryland, A History.
Baltimore: The Barton-Gillet Company, 1928. iii, 214 pp. Plates.
Reprinted 2006 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-581-5.
Cloth. $85.
* With its origins in the seventeenth
century, the Maryland Court of Appeals is one of the oldest in the
United States. Located in the middle of the east coast, it was
confronted with most of the key legal issues that affected the
colonies and early United States. Bond's was the first history of
the court from its origins around 1649 to the adoption of the
state's current constitution in 1867. A valuable study, it is based
almost entirely on primary sources. Bond [1873-1943] was the Chief
Justice of the Court from 1924 to the end of his life.
Borden,
Robert Laird, Sir.
Canadian Constitutional Studies: The Marfleet Lectures, University
of Toronto, October, 1921. Revised Edition. [Toronto]: University
of Toronto Press, 1922. 163 pp. Reprinted 2005 by the Lawbook
Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-586-7. ISBN-10: 1-58477-586-6.
Cloth. $65.
* This compact introduction traces the
constitutional development of Canada from 1760 to the early
twentieth century. Also included is a brief sketch of the
governmental system that existed during the French regime from 1608
to 1760 and a look at problems that Canada faced in the author's
lifetime. Borden [1854-1937] was the Prime Minister of Canada from
1911 to 1920.
Boutmy,
Emile. Studies
in Constitutional Law: France, England, United States.
Translated from the Second French Edition by E.M. Dicey. With
an Introduction by A.V. Dicey. London: MacMillan and Co., 1891.
xiv, [2], 183 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-530-0. ISBN-10: 1-58477-530-0. Cloth. $75.
* This sophisticated comparative study
has three parts. The first and second discuss of the nature and
origin of the English constitution and the constitutional government
of the United States in the same way. The third is a comparison of
the conceptions of sovereignty in France, England, and the United
States, as illustrated by their constitutions. Read in conjunction
with Dicey's introduction it offers a stimulating theoretical study
of these influential constitutions and their similarities and
differences.
Boyd,
William K.
The Ecclesiastical Edicts of the Theodosian Code. New York:
The Columbia University Press, 1905. 122. Reprinted 2005 by the
Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-531-7. ISBN-10: 1-58477-531-9.
Cloth. $70.
* Boyd discusses the influence of the
Code's ecclesiastical edicts on early medieval jurisprudence and the
Episcopal courts during the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. He also
examines how the Code engaged the legal conflict between
Christianity and paganism. Published in 438 C.E., the Theodosian
Code was the official compilation of laws enacted since
Constantine. It was superseded in 528 C.E. by the Code of
Justinian. Reprinted from the series Studies in History,
Economics and Public Law edited by the Political Science Faculty
of Columbia University.
Bradley, Howard A., and James A. Winans. Daniel Webster and the Salem Murder. Columbia, Missouri: Artcraft Press, 1956. 230 pp. Illustrations. Reprint available April 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-727-4. ISBN-10: 1-58477-727-3. Cloth. $90.
* Reprint of the sole edition. "This is the story of a famous murder...and of the trials of John Francis Knapp and of Joseph Jenkins Knapp. It is also the story of the part Daniel Webster played in those trials. His summation in one of those trials is thought by some to be the greatest ever delivered in America.": Introduction [9].
Bridgman,
Raymond L, Editor.
The First Book of World Law: A Compilation of the International
Conventions to Which the Principal Nations are Signatory, With
a Survey of Their Significance. Published for the World Peace
Foundation. [Boston]: Ginn and Company Publishers, 1911. v, 308
pp. Reprinted 2005 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-555-3.
ISBN-10: 1-58477-555-6. Cloth. $85.
* Included in the list of important
titles recommended for all working libraries of international law by
Fenwick, this book contains the complete texts of key international
conventions that were in force at the time of publication. These are
arranged by topic into 22 chapters, each with extensive
introductions and annotations. Civil and military matters are given
equal attention, as are agreements dealing with governmental and
non-governmental agencies. Fenwick, International Law (3rd.
ed.) xxv-l.
Brown,
Archibald.
A New Law Dictionary and Institute of the Whole Law. For the Use
of Students, the Legal Profession, and the Public. London:
Stevens & Hayes, 1880. xii, 579 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The
Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-610-2. Cloth. $120.
* Reprint of the second and final
edition. This is a practical dictionary. As such, it has concise
definitions that omit everything "old and totally disused" (iii).
Despite its compression, the work is admirably clear and detailed.
It even contains several terms from French and Roman law that relate
to English practice. What is more, its encapsulation of everyday
practice makes it a useful guide to English common law as it stood
around 1880, a time when Great Britain was the most powerful nation
on earth. Brown [1841-1916], a barrister of the Middle Temple,
edited several works and wrote treatises on a variety of subjects
including the laws of fixtures, the property of married women,
enfranchisements and commutations and Savigny's treatise on
obligations.
Brown,
William Garrott.
The Life of Oliver Ellsworth. New York: The Macmillan Company,
1905. 369 pp. Frontispiece. Three plates. Reprinted 2005 by The
Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-450-9. Cloth. New. $90.
* As a member of the first United States
Senate Ellsworth [1745-1807] supported Alexander Hamilton's policies
and was the main author of the Judiciary Act of 1789. He became
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1796. During his brief tenure,
which ended in 1799 due to poor health, Ellsworth worked to expand
the authority of the federal courts and extend common law procedures
in appeals to equity and admiralty cases. With limited success he
tried to initiate the policy of the Court's handing down per curiam
opinions for the entire court rather than seriatim opinions by
individual justices. Originally published in 1905, Brown's biography
remains the standard account of Ellsworth's life and work.
Brown,
W[illiam] Jethro.
The Underlying Principles of Modern Legislation. London:
John Murray, 1920. xvi, 319 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook
Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-652-9. ISBN-10: 1-58477-652-8.
Cloth. $95.
* Reprint of the sixth and final
edition. Brown [1868-1930] outlines the principles underlying the
course of English legislation during the nineteenth century. He uses
this method to "make intelligible the content of that law, which
must be understood if it is to be reformed in any worthy sense" and
to "provide the social reformer with an intellectual equipment which
should be of service in assessing the relative value of the many
proposed solutions of existing problems" (viii). In a review of the
first edition (1912) Roscoe Pound, though critical of some of its
conclusions, considered this an important book because it marked a
"swinging into line of English jurists in the general movement
toward philosophical jurisprudence.": Harvard Law Review 26
(1912-1913) 186.
Burke,
Edmund. Select
Works. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by E.J. Payne.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1881. 2 Vols. lxii, 328; lxx,
384 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 2005. ISBN-13:
978-1-58477-599-7. ISBN-10: 1-58477-599-8. Cloth. $150.
* An appealing compilation of Burke's
principal works, including On the Causes of the Present
Discontents (1770), which treats the expulsion of Wilkes from
Parliament and the value of political parties, the speech on On
Conciliation with the American Colonies (1775), which supported
the cause of the colonists, and Reflections on the Revolution in
France (1790), a classic criticism of the revolution and its
actors. Burke [1729-1797] is considered a founder of modern
conservatism. This is true to some extent, but not quite. He
believed in popular government and recognized the inevitability of
change. Indeed, he believed that a state that could not adapt to
change was a state doomed to failure.
Bynkershoek,
Cornelius van. Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, Editor and Translator.
A Treatise on the Law of War: Being the First Book of His Quaestiones
Juris Publici. Translated From the Original Latin with Notes,
by Peter Stephen du Ponceau. Philadelphia: Published by Farrand
& Nicholas [et al.], 1810. xxxiv, 218 pp. Reprint available
August 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange. ISBN 1-58477-566-1. Cloth.
$95.
* A title in the Lawbook Exchange series
Foundations of the Laws of War. "De Rebus Bellicus" addresses the
customs of war on land and on sea. A notably humane work, it
condemns actions against civilians and advocates the fair treatment
of prisoners of war. Du Ponceau's able translation is prefaced by a
biography of the author, a table of cases, an index of citations
from the Corpus Juris Civilis and an annotated bibliography
of civil law treatises cited or referred to by the author. This
latter item, which lists editions and translations, is interesting
for its insights into the American reception of the civil law in the
early 1800s. One of the most important jurists and international
lawyers of his time, Bynkershoek [1673-1743] was an influential
Dutch jurist who founded the positive school of international law,
which held that usage and practice were more important than
deductions drawn from natural law. Du Ponceau [1760-1844], who was
Baron von Steuben's secretary during the revolutionary War, is an
important figure in the early history of American Law and letters.
He founded the Law Academy of Philadelphia in 1821, was the
President of the American Philosophical Society and was a
much-consulted expert on international relations and linguistics.
Byrne,
Wm. Pitt, Mrs. [Julia C.], Compiler.
Curiosities of the Search-Room: A Collection of Serious, and
Whimsical Wills. London: Chapman and Hall, 1880. ix, 407 pp.
Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-590-4.
ISBN-10: 1-58477-590-4. Cloth. $95.
* Byrne [1819-1894] describes this
collection of colorful wills as "a series of romantic narratives."
Some are so romantic, in fact, that "those who are at a loss for the
plot of a new novel might dip into this collection for novel
materials" (ii). Contents include "Excentric Wills," "Puzzling
Wills," "Wills in Obsolete Language and in Rime," "Vindictive
Wills," "Bequests to Wives," "Wills in Favour of Dumb Animals,"
"Disputed Wills" and "Wills of Remarkable Persons."
Cahall,
Raymond Du Bois.
The Sovereign Council of New France: A Study in Canadian Constitutional
History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1915. 274 pp.
Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 1-58477-467-3. Cloth.
$80.
* The Sovereign Council was a
governmental body established by France in 1663 to administer its
colony in the St. Lawrence Valley. Unusually powerful for a colonial
government, the council was the primary legislative and legal
authority of New France. It had the power to select judges and minor
officials, control public funds and commerce with the mother
country, regulate the fur trade and set policy on local affairs.
Cahall treats the council's history, organization, procedure and
functions, assesses its effectiveness and evaluates its achievements
and failures. This valuable study was originally published as Volume
LXV, Number 1 in Columbia's series Studies in History, Economics and
Public Law.
Canfield,
Leon Hardy. The
Early Persecutions of the Christians. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1913. 215 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 1-58477-481-9. Cloth. $75.
* Based on a sensitive reading of all
known primary sources, many of a legal or legislative nature,
Canfield reconstructs the early history of the Christians'
persecution. After discussing their legal basis, he shows how the
law was employed from the reign of Nero through the reign of
Hadrian. The book has two parts. Each chapter in Part I has a
corresponding chapter of relevant source documents in Part II. All
appear in translation, some are also presented in the original Latin
or Greek. Originally published as Volume LV, Number 2 in Columbia's
series Studies in History, Economics and Public Law.
Cardozo, Benjamin N.
What Medicine Can Do For Law. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1930. 52 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-669-2.
Cloth. $50.
* Reprint of the first edition. Cardozo
[1870-1938], an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was one of
the most influential American jurists of the twentieth century.
"This noteworthy address, with its appreciation of the scientific
problems involved, its courage and social vision, will go down in
history as one of the most valuable contributions in our time to
medico-legal jurisprudence.": Shientag, Moulders of Legal Thought
39.
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