Author: VirginiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia
Author: VirginiaVirginia Law Books
Author: William Hamilton BrysonPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871692399
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Contents: State codes; Municipal & County Codes; Rules of Court; Reports of Cases; Official Court Records in Print; Accounts of Trials; Indexes, Digests, & Encyclopedias; Form Books; Law Treatises Printed Before 1950; Criminal Law Books; 19th-Century Law Journals; 20th-Century Legal Periodicals; Legal Education; Academic Law Libraries; William & Mary Law Library; Public Law Librarians; The Norfolk Law Library; Private Law Libraries Before 1776; Private Law Libraries After 1776; Public Printers; J.W. Randolph; The Michie Company; General Virginia Bibliography; Index of Authors & Editors; & Subject Index.
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
Author: Thomas D. MorrisPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864307
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
This volume is the first comprehensive history of the evolving relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. As Thomas Morris clearly shows, racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions or guidelines. Specifically, he demonstrates that there was no coherent body of law that dealt solely with slaves. Instead, more general legal rules concerning inheritance, mortgages, and transfers of property coexisted with laws pertaining only to slaves. According to Morris, southern lawmakers and judges struggled to reconcile a social order based on slavery with existing English common law (or, in Louisiana, with continental civil law.) Because much was left to local interpretation, laws varied between and even within states. In addition, legal doctrine often differed from local practice. And, as Morris reveals, in the decades leading up to the Civil War, tensions mounted between the legal culture of racial slavery and the competing demands of capitalism and evangelical Christianity.
State Publications: Southern states. 1908
Author: Richard Rogers BowkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The New Virginia Justice, Comprising the Office and Authority of a Justice of the Peace, in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Author: William Waller HeningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
A Collection of All Such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a Public and Permanent Nature, as are Now in Force
Author: VirginiaThe Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia
Author: VirginiaReconstructing the Household
Author: Peter W. BardaglioPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focuses on miscegenation, rape, incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners struggled with the conflicts and stresses that surfaced within their own households and in the larger society during the Civil War era. Based on literary as well as legal sources, Bardaglio's analysis reveals how legal contests involving African Americans, women, children, and the poor led to a rethinking of families, sexuality, and the social order. Before the Civil War, a distinctive variation of republicanism, based primarily on hierarchy and dependence, characterized southern domestic relations. This organic ideal of the household and its power structure differed significantly from domestic law in the North, which tended to emphasize individual rights and contractual obligations. The defeat of the Confederacy, emancipation, and economic change transformed family law and the governance of sexuality in the South and allowed an unprecedented intrusion of the state into private life. But Bardaglio argues that despite these profound social changes, a preoccupation with traditional notions of gender and race continued to shape southern legal attitudes.
Catalogue of the Library of the New-York Law Institute, Arranged Alphabetically, and Also According to the Order of the Subjects
Author: New York Law Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description