Beginnings of law and order in the Northwest Territory of the United States.
Subtitle: History sketches of of law makers, lawmaking and administering and commencement and evolution of the practice of law in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin
Contributors: Laning, Jay Ford, 1853-
Publisher: The Law Abstract Co.
Published: 1925
Place of publication: [Cleveland]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Law -- Northwest, Old; Courts -- Northwest, Old; Northwest, Old -- Politics and government
Notes: Reprint of original edition, with reproduction of t.-p.: Laws passed in the Territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, (volume 1) from the commencement of the government to the 31st of December, 1791.  Published by authority.  Philadelphia, Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, M,DCC,XCII. Cleveland, Law Abstract Co. reprint, 1925

"With the exception that we have omitted the long s, ss ... and some other old style type forms used in printing 135 years ago, and appearing in the original, the typography of this book is as exact a replica of the one it reprints, as it is possible to make it.  Otherwise, verbatim et literatum [!], line  for line, and page for page, it reproduces the old edition."--Publisher's pref

"A commentary and historical sketch of the first courts, judges, lawyers and system of jurisprudence of the Northwest Territory of the United States, and their development and importance.  Prepared by Jay F. Laning": p. vii-xxviii

"History of territorial law volumes": p. xxix