Magistrates and pioneers
Subtitle: essays in the history of American law
By: by Warren M. Billings
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Clark, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781616191276; 9781616191283
Subjects: Politics and government; Law; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The lure of the history of American law; title: The growth of political institutions in Virginia, 1634 to 1676; title: Law and culture in the colonial Chesapeake; title: English legal literature as a source of law and practice for seventeenth-century Virginia; title: Vignettes of Jamestown; title: Sir William Berkeley, a cavalier turned Virginian; title: Councils, assemblies, and courts of judicature: the development of representative government in seventeenth-century Virginia; title: The law of servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Virginia; title: Pleading, procedure, and practice: the meaning of due process of law in seventeenth-century Virginia; title: Louisiana legal history and its sources: needs opportunities and approaches; title: A judiciary legacy: the last will and testament of François-Xavier Martin; title: A neglected treatise: Lewis Kerr's exposition and the making of criminal law in Louisiana; title: The Supreme Court of Louisiana and the administration of justice, 1813-1995; title: A bar for Louisiana: origins of the Louisiana State Bar Association; title: Mixed jurisdictions and convergence: the Louisiana example; title: Politics most foul? Winston Overton's ghost and the Louisiana judicial election of 1934; title: Southern caudillos: Harry F. Byrd, Sr., and Huey P. Long, Jr.; title: Needs and opportunities in Virginia's legal history and culture.