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.... These could be imported, or assembled locally as The Magistrate s Assistant, etc. There were also these other main bodies of English law: (2) Statutes, which Americans sharply differentiated from common 7 For the history that the Revolutionary generation lived on, see H. Trevor Colbourn, The Lamp...

... social prog­ ress exceedingly difficult and coherent government impossible. Four main ideas run through all their propaganda. These are (1) that the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act are improperly and illegally upon our statute books; (2) that Pro­ hibition is so contrary to the customs...

..., and directing them very particularly to inquire whether the rail­ roads of the State were violating criminal law in selling tickets at a higher rate than that provided by the statute, to-wit: 214 cents a mile. In consequence of this charge Southern Railway Ticket Agent Green was indicted for selling a ticket...

... suggests that as early as 1641 a Negro servant s children were sometimes considered the property of the mother s master and disposable by him. From this single remarkable case it becomes evident that the position of the 0 Ibid., p. 279; William Waller Hening, The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection...

..., that the employer shall not be liable in respect of any injury to the work­ man which is caused in whole or in part by the serious and will­ ful misconduct of the workman . The statute very clearly set aside the common law doctrine of employer s liability. The haz­ ards of the business in reference to injury...

... to contribut- ing to the broader constitutional recognition of common goods, is a model for other theaters in its unprecedented use of a foundation, usually a pri- vate law tool, to legalize an “illegal” occupation. The statute forming the foundation the Statuto della Fondazione Teatro Valle Bene Comune...

.... Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer, has lately been advocating the enactment of a statute by the Gen­ eral Assembly of North Carolina providing that, wherever the greater part of the land acreage in any given district is owned by one race, a majority of the voters in such a district may say...

... to the statute books. William P. Helms, Jr., a keen student who has worked long and intelligently in the study of legislation, wrote in 1927 that there were ten million laws in the United States, or about one for every twelve inhabitants. The ten million, of course, includes all federal and state statutes...

.... But the statute book is not always a safe index to the laws which are enforced in a community, and the actual conditions of slavery rather than the theories in the statutes will form the constituting elements in any useful definition. In other words, we shall have to go behind the legislative enactments...

... and black races. These laws and the tendency in the South to regard the Negro as an inferior caused the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, the primary purpose of which was to guarantee to the Negro race equality of civil rights. Shortly after the Supreme Court in 1896 sustained the Louisiana statute...

... referred to, but the latter indicated only electoral districts and not centers pf local administration. 2 3 The constitutions and the statutes of Louisiana both seem to assume that the police jury is an existing institution, whose nature and purpose are so well understood as not to require definition...

..., was not the first effort made in this state to collect vital statistics. A search of the records would reveal statutes on the subject dating from colonial days, and there seems to have never been a time when the state was without a statute bearing on vital statistics. Recently there has been a new interest...

... ment was finally reached and it was stipulated that Germany should pay only the Young Plan annuities as of September 1, 1929. The Young Plan suggested an Organizing Committee as the instrumentality for drawing up the charter and statutes of the proposed bank and for getting it under way. Accord­ 308...

... of 1778 remained in operation for twelve years. In 1790 a new constitution was framed and ratified, which contained several changes from its predecessor. These were in the direction of democracy and made concessions to the up country. Also membership in the Assembly was reduced. A 1 Cooper, Statutes...

... (Cambridge, Mass., 1961), pp. 54-56. For English laws that provide that the informer receive part of the fine, see 3-4 Anne, c. 4, in Danby Pickering, The Statutes at Large (109 vols.; Cambridge, 17621869), XI, 76; 19 George 2, c. 22, in ibid., XVIII, 449-450; 30 George 2, c. 24, in ibid., XXII, 123-124...

... These mercantilist tactics in the book trade established the institutional prerequisites for intellectual property rights. Codifying existing practice in the Statute of Anne is usually pointed to as the legal origin...

... Court of Richmond, but none have yet gone to the Supreme Court. Just two months later, on June 19th, 1911, Norfolk passed a segregation ordinance which has been amended twice and which is now before the ordinance committee of the city council to make it conform to the state segregation statute...

..., some correspondence, mostly of the revolutionary period, and a few maps complete the list of manuscript material at Columbia. In Charleston there are some fragmentary parish records and the proceedings of the court of admiralty preserved in the office ^Commons House Journals, Ms., I., 1; Statutes...

..., some correspondence, mostly of the revolutionary period, and a few maps complete the list of manuscript material at Columbia. In Charleston there are some fragmentary parish records and the proceedings of the court of admiralty preserved in the office ^Commons House Journals, Ms., I., 1; Statutes...

... under the Treaty of Versailles, that it should be allowed to participate in the election of judges and pay a fair share of the expenses of the Court, and that it should have privilege of withdrawing at any time, and that the Statute creating the Court should not be amended without her consent. The fifth...