Author: KentuckyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky, of a Public and Permanent Nature
Author: KentuckyA Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky, of a Public and Permanent Nature, Passed Since 1834, with References to Judicial Decisions
Author: KentuckyA Digest of the Statutes Laws of Kentucky
Author: KentuckyA Digest of the Statute Law of Kentucky
Author: KentuckyA Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky, of a Public and Permanent Nature
Author: KentuckyCatalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library
Author: Pennsylvania State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The County in Kentucky History
Author: Robert M. IrelandPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
In the nineteenth century, Kentucky was one of the nation's leading producers of racehorses, whiskey, tobacco—and new counties. By 1886 the three original Kentucky counties had been carved into 119 (belated 120th was to be formed in 1912). These small divisions commanded the fierce loyalty of their citizens and for most Kentuckians formed the center of political and community life. The County in Kentucky History shows the bitter strife of countywide feuds and the conviviality of court day, the sporadic outbreaks of ill-feeling between town and country and the high-spirited brawls that regularly accompanied elections. Robert M. Ireland traces the structural changes in county government from the days when justices of the peace made up a self-perpetuating county court to the more democratic period when the buying of votes replaced the buying of offices. The most beneficial change that could come to local government—consolidation into fewer units—Ireland sees as unlikely where the tradition of county loyalties and rivalries remains as strong as it does in Kentucky.
Catalogue of Books in the Law Department of the Library of Congress. December, 1849
Author: Library of CongressLaw in American Meetinghouses
Author: Jeffrey Thomas PerryPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421443082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A revealing look at the changing role of churches in the decades after the American Revolution. Most Americans today would not think of their local church as a site for arbitration and would probably be hesitant to bring their property disputes, moral failings, or personal squabbles to their kin and neighbors for judgment. But from the Revolutionary Era through the mid-nineteenth century, many Protestants imbued local churches with immense authority. Through their ritual practice of discipline, churches insisted that brethren refrain from suing each other before "infidels" at local courts and claimed jurisdiction over a range of disputes: not only moral issues such as swearing, drunkenness, and adultery but also matters more typically considered to be under the purview of common law and courts of equity, including disputes over trespass, land, probate, slave warranty, and theft. In Law in American Meetinghouses, Jeffrey Thomas Perry explores the ways that ordinary Americans—Black and white, enslaved and free—understood and created law in their local communities, uncovering a vibrant marketplace of authority in which church meetinghouses played a central role in maintaining their neighborhoods' social peace. Churches were once prominent sites for the creation of local law and in this period were a primary arena in which civil and religious authority collided and shaped one another. When church discipline failed, the wronged parties often pushed back, and their responses highlight the various forces that ultimately hindered that venue's ability to effectively arbitrate disputes between members. Relying primarily on a deep reading of church records and civil case files, Perry examines how legal transformations, an expanding market economy, and religious controversy led churchgoers to reimagine their congregations' authority. By the 1830s, unable to resolve doctrinal quibbles within the fellowship, church factions turned to state courts to secure control over their meetinghouses, often demanding that judges wade into messy ecclesiastical disputes. Tracking changes in disciplinary rigor in Kentucky Baptist churches from that state's frontier period through 1845, and looking beyond statutes and court decrees, Law in American Meetinghouses is a fresh take on church-state relations. Ultimately, it highlights an oft-forgotten way that Americans subtly repositioned religious institutions alongside state authority.
Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library. Compiled and Classified by W. De Witt
Author: Pennsylvania State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description