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The Roman Lawyer--A Sketch, George L. Canfield

Michigan Law Review

OF the Roman lawyer this at least may be said, that his work had the quality which endures. It remains today the fundamental law of the greater part of the world and it was as much the special creation of the lawyer as our common law is the creation of the judge. As the Romans had no officers corresponding to our judges (the "judex" being practically a juror) the law of the case was usually settled by special counsel; disinterested in the issue, but of special learning in the legal points involved. These were the jurisconsults. They gave their opinions …

General Education Bill Of 1909, Tennessee General Assembly

Establishment of ETSU

Passed on April 27th, 1909 by the 56th General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, the General Education Bill of 1909 established state funding for the establishment and maintenance of normal schools devoted to the education and professional training of teachers in the state of Tennessee. One normal school was established in each division of the state.Two years later, using funding from this act, East Tennessee State Normal School was founded in 1911 and would eventually become East Tennessee State University.

✪ An Act To Amend And Consolidate The Acts Representing Copyright ✪, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

The Copyright Act of 1909 was a landmark U.S. law that governed copyright protection from March 4, 1909, until it was superseded by the Copyright Act of 1976. Although rarely needed, this law is still applied to certain categories of works created before January 1, 1978 that were not covered by the 1976 modifications.

The 1909 Act established key provisions for copyright law at the time, balancing the rights of creators with public access. It prescribed a copyright term of 28 years with the possibility of renewal for another 28 years, the requirement for publication with a copyright notice, and …

Debates And Passage Of Copyright Revision Bill On Floors Of House And Senate, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.                        3779
SIXTIETH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION
Vol. 43                                                           no . 67.
WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1909.

COPYRIGHT LAWS.

Mr. CURRIER. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules, discharge the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union from the further consideration of the bill H. R. 28192, agree to the amendments proposed by the committee, and pass the bill.

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from New Hampshire moves to suspend the rules, discharge the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union from the further consideration of the bill, agree to the amendments …

Miscellaneous Copyright Bills And Act Of 1909, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

60th CONGRESS, 1st Session.

H.R. 243.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
December 2, 1907.

Mr. Currier introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Patents and ordered to be printed.

A BILL
To amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright.

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60th CONGRESS, 1st Session.

S. 2499.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.  December 16, 1907.

Mr. Smoot introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Patents.

A BILL
To amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright.

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60th CONGRESS, 1st Session.

S. 2900.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED …

Hearings Before The Copyright Subcommittees Of The Committees On Patents, January 20, 1909, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

MR. STEUART: Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, the immediate subject to which I have been asked to address myself to-day is a clause contained in the fourth section of the proposed Washburn bill, which is in these words: “That subject to the limitations and conditions of this act copyright secured hereunder shall be entitled to all the rights and remedies which would be accorded to any other species of property at common law.”

Decisions, Statutes, & C., Concerning The Law Of Estates In Land, John R. Rood

Books

“The following pages have been printed from the notes made from time to time while preparing to conduct exercises in the first course on real property at the University of Michigan, using Blackstone’s Commentaries on the text.… In this edition several typographical errors in the first impression have been discovered and corrected. The scope of the work has also been extended by numerous additions throughout, and by inserting the chapters on uses, trusts, and powers, which did not appear in the first edition.

JOHN R. ROOD

Dated, Ann Arbor, February 25th, 1910” --Preface.

English Law As An Exponent Of English History, Edson R. Sunderland

Articles

It is not my purpose to unduly emphasize the light which the study of the laws of a people throws upon its character and development. The teaching of history should be broad enough to recognize the importance of all sides of national life. But I believe there has never been a sufficient appreciation of the real wealth of suggestive and illuminating material which is contained in the history of English law. For the English have been pre-eminently a legal race. In the study of Roman History Roman Law has always occupied a prominent place. The Romans made their reputation, so …

An Historical Development Of The Contract Theory In The Dartmouth College Case, R. N. Denham Jr.

Michigan Law Review

The theory enunciated in the famous Dartmouth College Case may be said to date back to the very beginnings of corporations. Just when were the beginnings of corporations and corporation law is, however, a question that has long been a much mooted one, some claiming that they were not known until the middle ages, while others put their inception as far back as the time of Solon in Greece; still others name Numa as the true founder of corporations, by reason of his classification of the Romans into societies according to the manual trade each followed, but the first really …

Some Miscellaneous Amendments To S. 6330 And Hr 19853 Proposed To The Copyright Office, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

Wording revisions proposed by a variety of commenters on S.6330 and H.R.19853,

Some Historical Matter Concerning Literary Property, Edward S. Rogers

Michigan Law Review

The notion of property in published literary works was of gradual development. One may search in vain through classical literature and Roman law to find anything in the nature of copyright. Hearty condemnation of plagiarism is to be found. Stealing another man's labor and passing it off as one's own was a literary crime, but neither that nor open piracy seems to have been a matter of which the law took cognizance. Before the invention of printing, making manuscript copies of a book was such a laborious and time-consuming task that an ancient author must have felt sufficiently repaid if …

Hearings Before The (Joint) Committees On Patents, March 26-28, 1908, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

THE CHAIRMAN: I should like to say to those who are interested in this proposed legislation that while no definite programme has been mapped out, there has been discussed and tentatively agreed to a plan of procedure We will take one of the bills for instance, Senate bill 2499 and we should like to have the parties who are interested in the different sections of the bill and have objections to that bill to make their objections known, and we will take up the sections so designated for consideration. All the other sections of the bill to which there may …

Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, January 7, 1908 - March 17, 1908, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

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

Historical Treatises

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. Iii, Alan D. Candler

Historical Treatises

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.

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, January 7, 1908 - March 17, 1908, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Are Too Many Executive Officers Elective?, Bradley M. Thompson

Articles

We propose very briefly to call attention, to so much of the present constitution of Michigan as has to do with the executive department, and to consider the methods which the people have adopted for selecting those public servants whose official duty it is to enforce the law, to maintain public order and protect private rights.

Historical Lights From Judicial Decisions, Edward Cahill

Michigan Law Review

The history of a nation is to be looked for in a great variety of places. Its traditions, its public and private records, its religious and social orders, its literature and its laws, each yield copious results to the researches of the historian. The social, religious and economic conditions of a nation at any period of its history, the state of the· domestic relations, the rights of property and of succession, the growth of personal liberty, all these and many more find their accurate expression sooner or later, in the written or unwritten laws of the land. And the movement …

Case Of The Monopolies Some Of Its Results And Suggestions, Sydney T. Miller

Michigan Law Review

Apparently the monopolistic idea is as old as the history of man. That great and good man, Job, may be counted as the earliest recorded "trust-buster," if we read between the lines of his story, and Solomon said, "He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it." Doubtless, by exhaustive search, we could find some record of attempts to monopolize during each century from Biblical days to the time of printing, and as surely there must have been a countermovement. But not until the last five hundred years …

A Written Constitution In Some Of Its Historical Aspects, Andrew C. Mclaughlin

Michigan Law Review

That an institution of government, like an institution or practice of society, is a growth and not a creation is now an accepted proposition. No one seeks to argue for it; no one endeavors to deny it. The introduction of this idea into our political thinking strongly influenced our methods and our ideas. In no field of study has the evolutionary idea shown itself more strongly than among workers in history and political science. And yet occasionally one is surprised by seeing how recently this idea has manifested itself in the examination of some historical problems. Until a short time …

The Scottish Jury, Rufus Fleming

Michigan Law Review

The origin of the jury is one of the subjects on which an agreement has not been. reached by writers on the history of law. A number of theories have been put forward at different times. At this day two of these theories receive considerable support. The first is that the jury system is a gradual and natural sequence from the modes of trial in use among the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Normans. The second-and perhaps the one more widely accepted at present-is that we owe trial by jury to the legal institutions of the Frankish empire. (Forsyth's "History of Trial by …

H. R. Report 7083, Pt. 2, March 2, 1907 (Minority Report) 59th Cong. 2d Session, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

We disagree with a portion of the majority report submitted by the Committee on Patents on House bill 25133, reported on January 30, 1907.

The bill is a redraft of House bill 19853, which was introduced in this House on May 31, 1906. In its original form the bill had a provision (subdivision g, section 1) securing to musical composers the exclusive right to reproduce their compositions by mechanical means, such as perforated rolls and disk or cylinder records.

The greater part of the time given by the committee to public hearings on this bill was taken up by the …

S. Report 6187, Ft. 2, February 7, 1907 (Minority Report) 59th Cong. 2d Session, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

We are opposed to certain portions of the majority report submitted by the Senate Committee on Patents on Senate bill No. 6330, and reported on January 29,1907, as Senate bill No. 8190.

The original bill was introduced in the Senate and House of Representatives on May 31, 1906, being Senate bill No. 6330 and House bill No. 19853.

It was immediately referred to the Patent Committees of the Senate and House, and it was arranged that the committees should hold joint public hearings on the bill, commencing June 6, 1906. At these hearings in June a great deal of opposition …

S. Report 6187, February 5, 1907, With S. 8190 Attached. 59th Cong. 2d Session, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

The Committee on Patents, to whom was referred the bill (S. 8190) to consolidate and revise the acts respecting copyrights, recommend that said bill do pass.

H. R. Report 7083, January 30, 1907 With Hr25133 Attached. 59th Cong. 2d Session, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

The Committee .on Patents, to whom was referred House bill 25133, respectfully report that they have had the same under consideration and recommend that it do pass.

Memorandum Dated January 22, 1907 In Support Of Copyright Office Substitute For Section 18 Of The Bill, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

THE COPYRIGHT TERM:

Memorandum Accompanying Substitute Suggested by Copyright Office for Section 18 of the Bill

A. The provision ought at least- —
(1) to assure io the author provision for his old age;
(2) to assure to the community the benefit of his own revision of his works as long as he lives, (only a complete control, of them will do this;)
(3) to enable him to provide for his children until they reach the age where they are likely to be self-supporting, or, if daughters, married;
B. (In the effort to meet the above needs) the provision ought …

The Pandex, Volume Ii

Kansas City School of Law Pandex Collection

Yearbook for Kansas City School of Law in Kansas City, Missouri, includes photos of and information about the school, student body, professors, and organizations.

Hearings Before The (Joint) Committees On Patents, December 7-11, 1906, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

Text of S. 6330 and H.R. 19853

Page 116-7

STATEMENT OF MR. SAMUEL L. CLEMENS:

Necessarily I am interested particularly and especially in the part of the bill which concerns my trade. I like that bill, and I like that extension from the present limit of copyright life of forty-two years to the author's life and fifty years after. I think that will satisfy any reasonable author, because it will take care of his children. … I should like to have you encourage oyster culture and anything else. I have no illiberal feeling toward the bill. I like it. I …

Hearings Before The (Joint) Committees On Patents, June 6-9, 1906, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

S. 6330 Proposed Text

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the copyright secured by this Act shall include the sole and exclusive right:

(a) For the purposes set forth in subsection (b) hereof, to make.any copy of any work or part thereof the subject of copyright under the provisions of this Act, or to abridge, adapt, or translate into another language or dialect any such work, or make any other version thereof;

(b) To sell, distribute, exhibit, or let for hire, or offer or keep for …

Initial Revision Bills Of 1906, S. 6330 And Hr 19853, Compared With Copyright Law In Force In December, 1904, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

PREFATORY NOTE

The official text of the copyright bill, presented to Congress on May 31, 1906, is reprinted in the following pages. Each separate section of the bill (in large type) is followed by the text of such parallel provisions as are found in the copyright laws now in force. These are supplemented by occasional notes referring to and quoting the earlier copyright statutes, and such other enactments as serve to elucidate either the present statutory provisions or the proposed legislation. All the provisions of the copyright laws in force are included, and it is hoped that this compilation may …