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Ua5/3 University Attorney - Committee File, Wku Archives Dec 2010

Ua5/3 University Attorney - Committee File, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Unprocessed committee files created by the University Attorney. Committees include the Council on Higher Education Special Committee on Minority Affairs, Administrative Council and Teacher Admissions, Certification, and Student Teaching Committee. This record group is unprocessed and must be reviewed for potential restricted materials before access is granted. Please contact the University Archivist prior to your visit.

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Warren County Bar Association - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Warren County Bar Association - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2399), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2399. Memorial resolution of Warren County Bar Association on the death of William H. Sterrett, an officer of the county court.

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Warren County, Kentucky - Wills (Mss 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Warren County, Kentucky - Wills (Mss 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 54. Original wills, made mostly in Warren County, Kentucky from 1798-1881, but including wills made elsewhere. Also includes some legal documents relating to wills. A name index is included in the finding aid. The is only a small portion of the original wills filed at the Warren County courthouse form 1798 to 1915.

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Constitutional Convention Of Kentucky, 1788-1792 (Sc 2355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2010

Constitutional Convention Of Kentucky, 1788-1792 (Sc 2355), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2355. Photocopy of the "Journal of the Constitutional Convention of Kentucky," covering proceedings held from 28 July 1788 through 18 April 1792.

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Rorie, Wendell H. (Sc 2322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Rorie, Wendell H. (Sc 2322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2322. Paper by Wendell H. Rorie titled "The Diary: My Legal Journey with Herman Southall" and presented to the Athenaeum Society in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The paper describes Rorie's personal and professional relationship with Southall, a Hopkinsville attorney, and includes anecdotes about other local attorneys and legal matters.

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Snell, Commodore Perry, 1821-1881 (Sc 2307), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2010

Snell, Commodore Perry, 1821-1881 (Sc 2307), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2307. Divorce decree for Commodore Perry Snell and Ellen A. Snell, granted 13 February 1866 in Warren County, Kentucky. The certified copy was made from Warren Circuit Court Record Book 23.

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Bush, Ann Patricia (Mcreynolds), 1922-2022 (Mss 328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2010

Bush, Ann Patricia (Mcreynolds), 1922-2022 (Mss 328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 328. Proof copy of "Executive Disorder: The Subversion of the United States Supreme Court, 1914-1940," written by Ann (McReynolds) Bush. The book follows the career of U.S. Attorney General (1913-1914) and Associate Supreme Court Justice (1914-1941) James Clark McReynolds, a native of Todd County, Kentucky.

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"The Urban Praetor's Tribunal" In Spaces Of Justice In The Roman World, Eric Kondratieff Jan 2010

"The Urban Praetor's Tribunal" In Spaces Of Justice In The Roman World, Eric Kondratieff

History Faculty Publications

"Book abstract: Despite the crucial role played by both law and architecture in Roman culture, the Romans never developed a type of building that was specifically and exclusively reserved for the administration of justice: courthouses did not exist in Roman antiquity. The present volume addresses this paradox by investigating the spatial settings of Roman judicial practices from a variety of perspectives. Scholars of law, topography, architecture, political history, and literature concur in putting Roman judicature back into its concrete physical context, exploring how the exercise of law interacted with the environment in which it took place, and how the spaces …

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