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Warren M Billings
What is the history of the Louisiana State Bar Association, and how is its two-hundred-year journey--from small, elitist guild to mandated professional association--relevant today? A Bayou Bar tracks the LSBA's…
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Brings together more than 200 period documents on topics including the settlement of Jamestown, the structure of government and society, labor, the economy, Indian-Anglo relations, and Bacon’s Rebellion.
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Warren M. Billings
Between 1632 and 1748, Virginia’s General Assembly revised the colony’s statutes seven times. Warren Billings presents a series of snapshots that depict the revisions of the corpus juris the General…
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Sir William Berkeley (1605-1677) influenced colonial Virginia more than any other man of his era, diversifying Virginia’s trade with international markets, serving as a model for the planter aristocracy, and…
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Professor Warren M Billings
A Collection of Essays by a Leading Scholar of Early American Legal History Magistrates and Pioneers collects eighteen essays by the historian Warren M. Billings. They address the main areas…
Focusing on the law books that colonial Virginians acquired, how they used them, and how they eventually produced a native-grown legal literature, this collection of essays explores important aspects of…
A collection of ten essays addressing law in 19th-century Louisiana. Topics include the impact of the printed word on the evolution of Louisiana law, the use of the courts to…
Examines the constitutions of 1812, 1845, 1852, 1868, 1879, 1898, 1913, 1921, and 1974 in detail.
Robert Joseph Pothier
Translated by Francois-Xavier Martin. Originally published: NewBern, N.C.: Martin & Ogden, 1802. 2 vols. in 1 book. xii (iii-xii new introduction), [xii], 364; [ix], 315, [1] pp. With a new…
Important Scarce Compilation of Mexican Laws Relating to Texas Translated and Published in 1839 Reprint of the only edition. With an introduction by Joseph W. McKnight describing its compilation, translation…
Bill Finlayson,Graeme M. Warren
A new critical perspective on the dominant narratives of the ‘Neolithic Revolution’, with an emphasis on local histories and hunter-gatherer dynamics.
