299. Babbitt, Charles J.
Hand-List
of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws Statutory Revisions,
Compilations, Codes, Etc., and Constitutional Conventions of
the United States and its Possessions and of the Several States
to May, 1912.
[Boston]:
The Trustees of the State Library of Massachusetts, [1912]
634 pp. Reprint
available 2003
ISBN 1-58477-293-X.
Cloth. $125.
* A hand-list
of statute law defining the location of the text of every legislative
session that has occurred in the United States
and its possessions to 1912, including every volume containing
session laws or revisions and compilations of laws. Compiled
for the State Library of Massachusetts by Charles J. Babbitt
under the direction of Charles F.D. Belden, the State Librarian
at the time of the compilation. The historical and bibliographic
details provided include a synopsis of the political situation
that warranted the statute when applicable, as well as format
and collation of the noted volume. 
300.
Dodd, Walter Fairleigh
The
Revision and Amendment of State Constitutions.
Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins Press, 1910
xvii, 350
pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 98-50815.
ISBN 1-886363-73-0. Cloth. $65.
301.
Elliott, Jonathan, compiler
The
American Diplomatic Code.
Embracing a Collection of Treaties and Conventions between the
United States and Foreign Powers from 1778 to 1834. Also a Concise
Diplomatic Manual Containing a Summary of the Law of Nations
from the Works of Wicquefort, Vattel, Martens, Ward, Kent, Story,
&c &c.
Washington:
Printed by J. Elliott, Jun., 1834
Two volumes,
1,334 pp. Reprint available 2003
ISBN 1-58477-301-4.
Cloth. $195.
* A useful
source of original treaties and conventions with other countries
worldwide, with an index organized by country, a table of the
negotiators, a diplomatic chronology from 1326 to 1834 offering
dates of treaties, and a summary of the law of nations from
selected renowned sources. First published in 1827, this is
a reprint of Elliot's second, final and updated edition, which
was adopted by Secretary of State McLane for the use of his
department during the Jackson administration (1829-1837). "Although
the collection of treaties has been superseded by later collections,
Elliot's summaries of judicial decisions are still valuable."
DAB III:93. Elliot [1784-1846] is widely known as the author
of the important Constitutional collection, The Debates in the
Several State Conventions of the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,
as Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in
1787. Dictionary of American Biography III: 92-93.
302.
Farnam, Henry W.
Chapters
in the History of Social Legislation in the United States
to 1860.
Washington:
Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1938
xx, 496 pp.
Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-049362.
ISBN 1-58477-054-6. Cloth. $100.
303.
[Field Codes]. [Field, David Dudley].
[New
York 1850-1865]. New York Field Codes. 1850-1865.
Vol.
I. The Code of Civil Procedure of the State of
New-York, Reported
Complete by the Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings. 1850.
Vol.
II. The
Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York, Reported
Complete by the Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings. 1850.
Vol.
III.
The Civil Code of the State of New
York, Reported
Complete by the Commissioners of the Code. 1865.
Vol.
IV. The
Penal Code of the State of New
York, Reported
Complete by the Commissioners of the Code. 1865.
Vol.
V. The Political Code of the State of New
York. 1860.
With
a new introduction by Michael Weber.
Five volumes.
Reprinted 1998
ISBN 1-886363-40-4
(set). Cloth. $495.
304.
[Field, Stephen Johnson].
Pomeroy, John Norton.
Some
Account of the Work of Stephen J. Field as a Legislator, State
Judge, and
Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.
[n.p.]:
[[S.B. Smith], 1881
464 pp. Reprint
available 2003
ISBN 1-58477-326-X
Cloth. $90.
See item
232 in section Legal
Biography & Personages for more information on this title.
305.
Giesecke, Albert Anthony
American
Commercial Legislation Before 1789.
New York:
University of Pennsylvania: D. Appleton and Company, agents,
1910
167 pp. Reprinted
2001
LCCN 00-058813.
ISBN 1-58477-153-4. Cloth. $65.
306.
Haines, Charles Grove
The
Conflict over Judicial Powers in the United States to 1870.
New York:
Columbia University Press, 1909
180 pp. Reprinted
2001
LCCN 99-088241.
ISBN 1-58477-080-5. Cloth. $60.
307.
Hepburn, Charles M.
The
Historical Development of Code Pleading in America and England
with Special Reference to the Codes of New York, Missouri, California,
Kentucky, Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Oregon, Washington,
Nebraska, Wisconsin, Kansas, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Idaho, Montana, Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas,
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Connecticut, and Oklahoma.
Cincinnati:
W.H. Anderson & Co., 1897
xvi, 318
pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001050458.
ISBN 1-58477-220-4. Cloth. $95.
308.
Holt, W. Stull
Treaties
Defeated by the Senate: A Study of the Struggle Between President
and Senate Over the Conduct of Foreign Relations.
Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins Press, 1933
vi, [1],328
pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-39606.
ISBN 1-58477-029-5. Cloth. $75.
309.
Ilbert, Courtenay
The
Mechanics of Law Making.
New York:
Columbia University Press, 1914
viii,
209 pp. Reprinted 2001
LCCN 99-047156.
ISBN 1-58477-044-9. Cloth. $70.
310.
Johns, C.H.W. , translator
The
Oldest Code of Laws in the World.
The
Code of Laws Promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon,
B.C. 2285-2242.
Edinburgh:
T. & T. Clark, 192
xii, 88 pp.
Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-053070.
ISBN 1-58477-061-9. Cloth. $60.
311.
Leaming, Aaron and Jacob Spicer
The
Grants, Concessions, and Original Constitutions of the Province
of New Jersey.
The
Acts Passed During the Proprietary Governments, and Other Material
Transactions Before the Surrender Thereof to Queen Anne The
Instrument of Surrender, and Her Formal Acceptance Thereof,
Lord Cornbury’s Commission and Instructions Consequent Thereon,
Collected by Some Gentlemen Employed By the General Assembly.
And
Afterwards Published by Virtue of an Act of the Legislature
of the said Province With Proper Tables Alphabetically Digested,
Containing the Principal Matters in the Book.
Philadelphia:
W. Bradford, [1881]
[vi], 763
pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001050457.
ISBN 1-58477-219-0. Cloth. $135.
312.
Livingston, Edward
A
System of Penal Law, for the State of Louisiana.
Consisting
of A Code of Crimes and Punishments, A Code of Procedure, A
Code of Evidence, A Code of Reform and Prison Discipline, A
Book of Definitions. Prepared Under the Authority of a Law of
the Said State. To Which are Prefixed a Preliminary Report on
the Plan of a Penal Code, and Introductory Reports to the Several
Codes Embraced in the System of Penal Law.
Philadelphia:
James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1833
v, 745 pp.
Reprinted 1999
LCCN 99-11403.
ISBN 1-886363-83-8. Cloth. $110.
313.
[Macaulay, Thomas Babington]
A
Penal Code Prepared by the Indian Law Commissioners, and published
by Command of the Governor General of India
in Council.
London:
Pelham Richardson, Cornhill, 1838
viii, 138
pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 99-16486.
ISBN 1-58477-018-X. Cloth. $65.
314.
Moyle, J.B.
The
Institutes of Justinian.
Translated
into English with an Index. Fifth Edition.
Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1913
viii, 220
pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001041401.
ISBN 1-58477-185-2. Cloth. $90.
315.
Pharr, Clyde
The
Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions.
A
Translation with Commentary, Glossary, and Bibliography.
[Princeton]:
Princeton University Press, 1952
Quarto. Book
measures 9" x 12.” xxvi, 643 pp. Reprinted 2001
ISBN 1-58477-146-1.
Cloth. $195.
* This
volume is Volume I of The Corpus of Roman Law (Corpus
Juris Romani), General Editor, Clyde Pharr. Volume II is
also available, see item 35 in
section Ancient, Roman &
Greek Law.
316.
Ringgold, James T.
Sunday.
Legal
Aspects of the First Day of the Week.
Jersey
City: Frederick D. Linn & Co., 1891
xxii, 321
pp. Reprint available 2003
ISBN 1-58477-332-4.
Cloth. $75.
* This
treatise surveys all known laws relating to Sunday and urges
their rejection while it refutes any arguments defending their
legality. Contents: “Constitutionality of Sunday Laws in the
United States,”
“Sunday as a Dies Non Juridicus,” “Sunday in the Computation
of Time,” “Sunday Liquor-Selling” and “The Prohibition of Sunday-Labor.”
With a chronological outline of laws concerning Sunday observance
from Antiquity to the present and a table of Sunday laws in
each state.
317.
Savigny, Frederick Charles von
Of
the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence.
Translated
by Abraham Hayward.
London: Littlewood,
[1831]
ix, [9]-192
pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001041396.
ISBN 1-58477-189-5. Cloth. $65.
318.
Schwartz, Bernard, editor
The
Code Napoleon and the Common-Law World.
The
Sesquicentennial Lectures Delivered at The Law Center of New
York University December 13-15, 1954.
New York:
New York University Press, 1956
x,
438 pp. Reprinted 1998
LCCN 98-34100.
ISBN 1-886363-59-5. Cloth. $80.
319.
Seidman, J.[acob] S.
Seidman’s
Legislative History of Federal Income Tax Laws 1938-1861.
New York:
Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1938]
xviii, 1166
pp. Reprint available 2003
LCCN 2002041358.
ISBN 1-58477-336-7
Cloth. $225.
* This
legislative history of the course of federal income tax laws
as they have proceeded through Congress will be useful to those
arguing or ruling on tax cases.The work collects the texts of
the committee reports and discussions on the floor of Congress
relating to all of the income tax provisions of the Revenue
Acts from 1861 to 1938 that are of interpretive significance.
Material is arranged act by act in inverse chronology. "The
principle contribution is that it gathers together in compact
and organized form these essential materials, which are otherwise
scattered through many volumes of the Congressional Record,
committee reports, and elsewhere. Many of these reports, particularly
in the case of the earlier acts, are either unavailable or are
extremely difficult or expensive to obtain. [T]he work has been
carefully and thoroughly done." A. H. Kent, American Bar
Association Journal 25:479 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of
the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 852.
320.
Seidman, J.[acob] S.
Seidman’s
Legislative History of Federal Income and Excess Profits Tax
Laws 1953-1939.
New York:
Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1954
Two volumes,
1,884 pp. Reprint available 2003
LCCN 2002041364.
ISBN 1-58477-335-9
Cloth. $350.
* Covering
the years 1939-1954 in inverse chronology, a collection of the
texts of United States congressional committee reports, Congressional
Records, reports of hearings, and laws passed or rejected, relating
to all of the income tax provisions of the Revenue Acts that
are of interpretive significance, this legislative history will
be of interest to those arguing or ruling on tax cases. A continuation
of Seidman's Legislative History of Federal Income Tax Laws
1938-1861, with the addition of extensive material relating
to excess profit tax laws.
321.
Stimson, Frederic Jesup
Popular
Law-Making.
A
Study of the Origin, History, and Present Tendencies of Law-Making
by Statute.
New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910
xii, 545
pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 00-022513.
ISBN 1-58477-094-5. Cloth. $85.
322.
Willis, John
The
Parliamentary Powers of English Government Departments.
Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1933
214 pp. Reprinted
2003
LCCN 2002025940.
ISBN 1-58477-271-9. Cloth. $95.
See item
98 in section English
Legal History for more information on this title.
