History of the bench and bar of California
Subtitle: being biographies of many remarkable men, a store of humorus and pathetic recollections, accounts of important legislation and extraordinary cases, comprehending the judicial history of the state
By: edited by Oscar T. Shuck.
Contributors: Shuck, Oscar T. 1843-1905.
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Clark, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781584777069
Subjects: Judges -- California -- Biography; Lawyers -- California -- Biography; Trials -- California; Law -- California -- History
Genres: Biography
Notes: Originally published: Los Angeles, Calif. : Commercial Printing House, 1901.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A review of military-civil government; title: The birth of the commonwealth; title: Adoption of the common law; title: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and private land claims; title: The death penalty for larceny; title: Recovery of the Pious Fund; title: The bonanza suits of 1877; title: Irrigation laws and decisions of California; title: The tragic history of the Sharon cases; title: The California code of laws.