Category: Historical

  • Bouvier´s Law Dictionary and Institutes of American Law

    Bouvier´s Law Dictionary and Institutes of American Law in Europe Review of Bouvier´s Law Dictionary and Institutes of American Law This review was written in North American Review (July, 1861) by S. Austin Allibone, author of the Dictionary of Authors The author of these volumes taught […]

  • Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia

    Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia The Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia comprises introductions to the major legal systems in the world, with coverage ranging from legal education and the way of professional practice, to the form of government and substantive law. This comprehensive compilation […]

  • Key Number System

    Key Number System in Europe Origins of the American Digests . The Regional Reporter Although recording of case decisions dates back as early as the 1600s, the organized system of categorizing and cataloging the cases in the United States started in 1879, in Minnesota. John West, the founder […]

  • Canadian Encyclopedic Digest: First Ontario Edition

    Canadian Encyclopedic Digest: First Ontario Edition in Europe Copyright 1926 Burroughs and Company [Eastern] Ltd. Volume 1 Absentees by W. Kent Power (1925) Accession by W. J. Tremeear (1925) Actions by W. Kent Power (1925) Admiralty by W. J. Tremeear (1925) Agency by S. Edward Bolton […]

  • Canadian Encyclopedic Digest: First Western Edition

    Canadian Encyclopedic Digest: Western Edition Contents of the First  Edition: Volume 1 Copyright Canada 1919 by Burroughs and Company Limited Abduction by W. J. Tremeear (1917) Abortion Offences by W. J. Tremeear (1917) Accession by S.E. Bolton (1918) Action by W. J. Tremeear (1917) […]

  • Selective Publication of Cases

    Selective Publication of Cases In the United States, in the late 18th Century, at the time that West was developing its National Reporter System, other publishers were trying other alternatives to case reporting. One of these approaches were the publication of fulltext cases, but only of […]

  • About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical 3

    About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical 3 in Europe It would appear, therefore, from the authorities which I have cited that in the two great English-speaking people of the world, one descended from the other, there prevail two, and possibly three, opinions as to the […]

  • About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical 2

    About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical 2 in Europe This Jus Gentium of the Imperial jurisconsults is identical with the Law of Nature, or Natural Law, of many modern ethical and juridical writers; and both are, in fact, the law of God, made known somewhat dimly to the […]

  • About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical

    About Authority and Saction of International Law, Historical in Europe In the latter portion of the last lecture I endeavoured to establish three propositions, which I hold to be extremely important to the intelligent study of International Law. The first of them was that the process by […]

  • About the Origins and Sources of International Law, Historical

    About the Origins and Sources of International Law, Historical in Europe The eminent man who founded the Whewell Professorship of International Law laid an earnest and express injunction on the occupant of this chair that he should make it his aim, in all parts of his treatment of the […]