Author: Karl Knox GartnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Interstate Commerce Act
Author: Karl Knox GartnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Interstate Commerce Commission Notice
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Storage and moving trade
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Railroads and American Law
Author: James W. Ely, Jr.Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700611444
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900) At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system. James W. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions-the railroad and American law-had a profound influence on each other. Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of new laws in a country where long-distance internal transport had previously been limited to canals and turnpikes. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Much of this development was originally designed to serve the interests of the railroads themselves but gradually came to contest and control the industry's power and exploitative tendencies. As Ely reveals, despite its great promise and potential as an engine of prosperity and uniter of far-flung regions, the railroad was not universally admired. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike-situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail. Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.
Simmons V. Interstate Commerce Commission
Author: Index-digest-analysis of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Commission Act
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1370
Book Description
Abridged Reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission and Current Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act
Author: Herbert Confield LustPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Consolidated Current Index to Decisions of Interstate Commerce Commission
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Supplemental Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description