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Tort Law: Cases & Critique, Thomas E. Kadri

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My goal in creating this casebook is to do my part to make legal education more affordable, accessible, and adaptable. That’s why I’m making the book available to all for free. By using a CC BY-NC license, I’m also inviting others to adapt these materials for their own use, so long as they adhere to the non-commerciality and attribution terms. (Anyone interested in “remixing” this book for their own purposes should feel free to contact me, including if you’d like a more adaptable non-PDF version.)

You’re welcome to print any part of this casebook if you want a hard …

Legal Writing Manual (2nd Edition), Jean Mangan, Brittany Blanchard, Gabrielle Gravel, Chase Lyndale, Connely Doizé

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This manual provides you with an overview of first-year legal writing topics and provides checkpoints during your writing process. On the other hand, this manual does not answer every question you have ever had on any legal writing concept and it is certainly not a spellbook that will make you instantly awesome at legal writing. Writing as a skill is a lifelong development process. Everyone can be an effective legal writer. Put in the time to study the concepts and then to practice using those concepts in your writing. Seek feedback on your writing and implement the feedback you receive. …

Georgia Legal Research, Amy Taylor

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This open source textbook authored by Amy Taylor was designed to provide University of Georgia School of Law students with a comprehensive guide to Georgia legal research. Using this text in combination with appropriate assignments, student objectives include the ability to select, evaluate, and use appropriate legal research tools with an emphasis on cost-effective research and proficiency in the following topics:

• Developing an efficient and cost effective research strategy
• Advanced searching skills in legal research databases
• Case law, including docket research, court rules, and verdicts & settlements
• Statutory law, including legislative materials and legislative history
• Administrative regulations, rules, and related …

Criminal Law Drafting Manual, Jean Mangan

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This textbook was created under a Round 19 Mini-Grant. It is hosted on the Open ALG (Affordable Learning Georgia) Projects platform.

Legal Writing Manual, Jean Mangan, Chase Lyndale, Gabrielle Gravel

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This manual provides you with an overview of first-year legal writing topics and provides checkpoints during your writing process. On the other hand, this manual does not answer every question you have ever had on any legal writing concept and it is certainly not a spellbook that will make you instantly awesome at legal writing. Writing as a skill is a lifelong development process. Everyone can be an effective legal writer. Put in the time to study the concepts and then to practice using those concepts in your writing. Seek feedback on your writing and implement the feedback you receive. …

Cook's Field Guide To Prosecution In Georgia, Alan A. Cook

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In this practical guidebook former district attorney and director of the University of Georgia's School of Law Prosecutorial Justice Program Alan Cook shares his personal wisdom and advice gathered from his decades of experience into a single volume. The handbook includes introductions to each chapter topic, plus both quick and detailed reference sections on all aspects of criminal law and procedure. It also includes useful appendices with step-by-step practice guides for how to perform specific prosecutorial tasks (such as how to take a guilty plea). Law student testimonies from now seasoned attorneys at the start of the book indicate the …

Patent Law: Cases & Materials ~ Version 2.0, Joseph S. Miller

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The book contains edited cases, patent figures, and excerpts, along with brief introductions on patent law. This book is designed for use in close conjunction with a specific softcover hornbook published by Wolters Kluwer, Janice Mueller’s, Patent Law, Fourth Edition (Aspen Student Treatise Series 2013). If you decide to use this case collection to teach a course of your own — as I hope people will — please check back to ensure that you have the most up-to-date version. This version, which is 2.0, was posted in June 2015.

Reproduced and linked with permission of the author.

Comparative Law: Law, Reality And Society (3rd Edition), Alan Watson

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Not a conventional approach to comparative law. Rules and structures of one system are not set out against those of another for contrast. Rather, rules particular or general, are examined to explain how they came to be.

Excerpt reproduced with permission of the author.

Glannon Guide To Property: Learning Property Through Multiple-Choice Questions And Analysis, James C. Smith

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Reproduced with the permission of Aspen Publishers from Smith, James Charles. 2008. The Glannon Guide to Property: Learning Property through Multiple-choice Questions and Analysis. Austin: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business/Aspen Publishers.

The History Of Georgia In The Eighteenth Century, As Recorded In The Reports Of The Georgia Bar Association, Orville A. Park

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Gober's Georgia Form Book And Procedure, A Collection Of Legal Forms With Annotations From The Reports Of The Supreme Court And The Court Of Appeals Of Georgia On Questions Relating To Forms And Procedure; Prepared For The Use Of The Judiciary, The Bar, The Officers Of Court, And Business Me, George Fletcher Gober

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Excerpt from the preface:

The work of preparing this volume has developed out of all proportion to what I anticipated in the outset. The great trouble under our system is that there are so many things that are not fixed and determined. Our system of pleading provides that a party must plainly, fully and distinctly set forth his cause of action, and this leaves the form to be passed upon under the discretion of about one hundred trial judges in the City and Superior Courts, and this discretion, in many instances, is controlled by individual and particular ideas. For this …

A Manual On Land Registration, Arthur Gray Powell

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Excerpt from the preface:

I decided that my labors would prove most useful if I attempted to write a practical, rather than a learned treatise on the subject. While the subject is one that might bear much fruit under learned treatment, still what the present moment most demands is a practical handbook which will inform the profession and the officers who are to administer the law what to do and how to do it, when a landowner comes seeking to register his land.

There has been no effort at style, except that I have striven to state matters in a …

A Treatise On The Constitution Of Georgia, Walter Mcelreath

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Excerpt from the preface:

Every thorough lawyer and careful judge in Georgia has experienced great difficulty in tracing the history of constitutional provisions through the scattered and rare volumes of digests, codes and sessions laws and has suffered great inconvenience in ascertaining with certainty what was the organic law with respect to a given proposition at a given time. To remove this difficulty and to lessen this inconvenience, the preparation of the present work was undertaken, with the primary purpose to exhibit the fundamental law of the state,-not to furnish a commentary upon it. It was at first proposed only …

The Revolutionary Records Of The State Of Georgia, Vol. Iii, Alan D. Candler

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This compilation contains all authentic records and documents relating to. the Revolutionary period of Georgia history that the compiler has been able to find after a most careful, thorough and diligent search. While it is not presented as a complete compilation, it is believed that it contains most of the official records made during the period of which it treats, certainly all that are now in existence, and to supply the place of original papers not now in existence, well authenticated copies and extracts from contemporaneous publications have been utilized.

The Revolutionary Records Of The State Of Georgia, Vol. I, Alan D. Candler

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This compilation contains all authentic records and documents relating to. the Revolutionary period of Georgia history that the compiler has been able to find after a most careful, thorough and diligent search. While it is not presented as a complete compilation, it is believed that it contains most of the official records made during the period of which it treats, certainly all that are now in existence, and to supply the place of original papers not now in existence, well authenticated copies and extracts from contemporaneous publications have been utilized.

The Law Of Personal Injuries And Incidentally Damage To Property By Railway-Trains, Based On The Statutes And Decisions Of The Supreme Court Of The State Of Georgia, John L. Hopkins

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From the front matter:

Testimonials From the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia

Atlanta, May 22, 1902.

We have given the book prepared by Hon. John L. Hopkins, entitled "The Law of Personal Injuries," etc., a sufficient examination to enable us to say, without hesitation, that it is a work of great merit and utility. It will surely save the hard-worked judge and busy lawyer much time and labor by making the decisions of this court, bearing on the subjects treated, readily accessible in available form. The distinguished author's wel1 - executed plan of grouping …

The Georgia Form Book, Or, A Collection Of Legal Forms Under Georgia Law : Designed To Aid Attorneys-At-Law, Judges, Ordinaries, Clerks, Coroners, Sheriffs, Justices Of The Peace, Constables, Road Commissioners, Etc, Etc., As Well As Business Men In General, Silman & Thompson

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Excerpt from the preface:

Testimonials.

Atlanta, Ga., September 26th, 1881.

Under special employment for the purpose, by Messrs. Silman & Thompson, I have carefully examined the collection of legal forms which they have prepared. As a result of the examination, I can and do recommend these Forms, each and all, as safe and sufficient. They are calculated to serve the wants, not only of attorneys at law, Ordinaries, County Commissioners, Clerks, Sheriffs, Coroners, Justices of the Peace, and others engaged in administering the law or executing its process, but, also, in some degree, of business men in general, such as …

A Treatise On The Law Of Executors, Administrators, And Guardians, William M. Reese

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From the preface:

On account of the many changes made in the Laws of Georgia relating to Executors, Administrators and Guardians, and on account of the codification of the same, I have, upon the request of many valued friends, prepared this work. It might be styled a third edition of the Manual for Ordinaries, Executors, Administrators and Guardians, in the State of Georgia; yet, as this work is of more than a local application, I have changed the title of it, following the example of Redfield, Smith, North, and others. In the citation of Sections of Code, I have followed …

Legal Forms For Common Use In Georgia : Embracing Over Four Hundred Approved Precedents, For Affidavits, Agreements, Bills Of Sale, Deeds, Notes, Etc., Etc., Also, Forms In Judicial Proceedings, Arbitrations, Attachments, Orders, Process, Pleading, Probate Of Deeds, Rules, Wills, Etc., Etc., With Others To Guide Attorneys, Magistrates, Justices Of The Inferior Court, Constables, Sheriffs, Ordinaries, Clerks, Etc., Etc., In The Many Duties Required Of Them By Law : To Which Is Added An Appendix Containing The Statutory Provisions As To County Officers, Magistrates, And Elections, The Rules Of Court, And The Constitution Of Georgia, John B. Hines, Richard K. Hines

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Excerpt from the preface:

The object of the present volume is to furnish the legal profession, magistrates, county officers, and private citizens of this State, with a plain, accurate, and complete Form Book, which shall be cheap in price, and convenient in size, and so arranged that any one, however ignorant of such formulas, can use it when the occasion presents itself. Added to the forms, in the body of the work, are such directions and suggestions as it was supposed would be useful. In the Appendix are the statutory enactments of our State in regard to county .officers, magistrates, …

A Compilation Of Legal Forms In Use In The State Of Georgia, The Rules Of Practice, And State Papers, Howell Cobb

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From the front matter:

I have examined your Compilation of Legal Forms, with as much attention as one perusal would allow. The forms and precedents are well selected, and such as are of most frequent use in business transactions, and a portion of them such as, I believe, cannot be found in any other compilation. Such portions of the work as must depend, for their correctness, upon the care of - the publisher, I have not thought it necessary to examine, as they are., already before .the public, but in detached and separate books, and embraced in your work for …

The Georgia Justice: Being A Convenient Directory For The Justices Of The Peace, And Various Other Civil Officers Known To The Laws Of The State Of Georgia, Rhodom A. Greene, John W. Lumpkin

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From the front matter:

Be it remembered, That on the twenty-fifth day of May, in the fifty-ninth year of the independence ©f the United States of America, A. D. 1835, Rhodom A. Greene and John W. Lumpkin, of said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:—

“The GEORGIA JUSTICE : being a convenient Directory for the Justices of the Peace, and various other civil officers known to the Laws of the State of Georgia. Containing a Digest of the Statutes relating to the …

The Office And Duty Of A Justice Of The Peace: And A Guide To Clerks, Constables, Coroners, Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Sheriffs, Tax Collectors, And Receivers, And Other Civil Officers, Augustin S. Clayton

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From the front matter:

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-eighth day of September,in the forty•fourth year of the independence of the United States of America, A. ll.1819, Mathew Carey and Son, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim a, proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

The office and duty of a Justice of the Peace, and a guide to Clerks, Constables, Coroners, Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Sheriffs, Tax-collectors, and Receivers, and other civil officers, ac­cording to the laws of the State of Georgia; with an Appendix, containing …