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Arguments Before The Committee On Patents, May 3, 1906, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, during the last hundred years and more the inventors of the country have been liberally dealt with by the lawmakers, and the result is to-day no country m the world stands higher in everything in the line of mechanical and industrial development than the United States does, and I think you gentlemen who have this matter of patents in charge may justly take pride in yourselves that your committee in the past has done such magnificent work for the wealth, the prosperity, and the reputation, and the ability of the United States at …

Arguments Before The Committee On Patents, May 2, 1906, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

CHAIRMAN. The bill seeks to amend section 4966 of the Revised Statutes, which in the original text is as follows:

Any person publicly performing or representing any dramatic composition for which a copyright has been obtained, without the consent of the proprietor thereof, or his heirs or assigns, shall be liable for damages therefor, such damages in all cases to be assessed at such sum, not less than one hundred dollars· for the first and fifty dollars for every subsequent performance, as to the court shall appear to be just.

On January 6, 1897, section 4966 was amended to read …

Letter Of April 17, 1906 From Register Of Copyrights Concerning Importation Clause Of Proposed Copyright Bill, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

The enclosed copy of the importation clauses of the proposed Copyright bill, is sent to each member of the American Library Association at the request of the Executive Board and of Messrs. Hill and Bostwick, delegates of the Association at the recent conferences on Copyright.

The passages embraced in marginal lines are those supposed to be of particular concern to libraries.

Stenographic Report Of The Proceedings Of The Librarian's Conference On Copyright, 3d Session, At Library Of Congress, Washington, D. C., March 13-16, 1906, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

A preliminary draft of a proposed bill for the amendment and consolidation of the copyright law was submitted as a basis for discussion to the Conference on Copyright held at the call of the Librarian of Congress, in New York, on November 1 - 4, 1905, succeeding a previous one held May 31 - June 2, 1905. Some fifty persons were present, mainly representatives of associated interests concerned in copyright legislation. A lively interest was manifested, unanimity of opinion expressed as to the need for amended legislation, and valuable suggestions advanced. Many of these suggestions, together with others since transmitted, …

Notice Of March 6, 1906 From Librarian For The Conference To Be Held March 13-16, 1906 And Accompanying Memorandum, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

NOTICE FOR CONFERENCE OF MAR. 13-16,1906.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

To the Organizations Represented at the recent
Conference on Copyright and to be
Represented at the Coming Conference, March 13:

The memorandum embodying the revised draft has now reached you. At the first session on Tuesday next we should propose at the outset to invite each organization (briefly and without argument):

(1) To designate by sections any provisions to which it would propose amendment in substance; and
(2) To state any proposals not provide for in the draft, but which it still desires to urge.

In order that the above statement …

The Pandex, Volume I

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.

Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, January 2, 1906 - March 26, 1906, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Some Observations On Case Law Reporting, John R. Rood

Articles

There is an old tradition, still believed by many lawyers, that these year-books were official reports made by a reporter appointed and paid by the king. If there ever was such a reporter, he is yet to be discovered. No year-books have been found in the treasury of the courts; there is no record of the appointment or payment of any official reporter, through all the two hundred and fifty years covered by the year-books; all the year-books now in the British Museum were found in private hands.2 Is it conceivable that an official reporter would criticize the court and …

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, January 2, 1906 - March 26, 1906, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Stenographic Report Of The Proceedings Of The Librarian's Conference On Copyright, 2d Session, In New York City, November 1-4, 1905, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

This draft of the proposed Bill for the amendment and consolidation of the copyright laws is entitled a "Memorandum Draft" to indicate its tentative nature. It is not submitted as a complete text. The time allowed (since September first) has been too short to do justice to so difficult a task. Provisions dealing with many important questions, such as penalties for infringement, judicial procedure, definitions, and the inclusion of other subjects under copyright protection, have had to be left for future consideration. It is hoped, however, that what is here tentatively submitted may serve as a basis for such discussion …

Excerpt From Report Of The Librarian Of Congress For Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1905, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

"The existing copyright laws of the United States are admittedly imperfect and confused, difficult for the courts to interpret, and impossible for the Copyright Office to administer to the satisfaction of its clients. A similar, though less flagrant condition of the laws relating to trade-marks led to the appointment by Congress of a Commission to revise and codify them. Similar action has been urged to deal with copyright. The experience of the committees of Congress concerned with these subjects led them to believe, however, that as effective results would be achieved more promptly, and at less cost, by conference and …

Stenographic Report Of The Proceedings Of The Librarian's Conference On Copyright, 1st Session, In New York City, May 31-June 2, 1905, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

The origin and the occasion and the purpose of the Conference … is a general agreement that our present copyright laws are defective in definition and imperfect and perhaps inconsistent in expression. The occasion is an intimation from the Senate Committee on Patents that at the coming session of Congress it proposes to submit abill for a codification of these laws. Such a bill would naturally be drafted in the Copyright Office. If so, it would be the desire of the Copyright Office to have upon it the criticism of the various interests concerned with copyright protection. But the office …

Ecclsiastical Jurisdiction In England, Edwin Maxley

Michigan Law Review

Previous to the invasion of William the Conqueror the ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England was not at all clearly defined. Under the protection, and, as protection implies jurisdiction, under the jurisdiction of the bishops were the following: sacred persons and sacred things. Among the former were included men in orders, monks and nuns; and among the latter: churches and church-yards, books and furniture of churches, sacraments, ecclesiastical and marital rituals. So far as can be found, there were not at that time any separate ecclesiastical courts. The bishops, with the assistance of archdeacons and deans, exercised their ecclesiastical jurisdiction through the …

Letter From Sen. Kittredge To Librarian Of Congress, Dated January 27, 1905, Recommending That Librarian Call Conference, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

UNITED STATES SENATE
Committee on Patents

Washington, D. C.
January 27, 1905.

Hon. Herbert Putnam,
Library of Congress
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir:-

Yesterday I conferred with Senator Platt of Connecticut regarding your suggestion that Congress by resolution authorize you to call a conference to consider a codification of the copyright law. Senator Platt is strongly opposed to the appointment of a commission and also thinks it improper for Congress to authorize you to call this conference. I have taken this matter up with the members of the Patent Committee and we have agreed that Senator Platt’s conclusion is …

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, January 12, 1905 - February 10, 1905, Special Session, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Statute Of Uses And The Modern Deed, John R. Rood

Articles

To what extent does the modem conveyance of estates in land in the United States by deed derive its validity from the English Statute of Uses, 27 Hen. 8, c. IO? No doubt the student, and especially the teacher, is inclined to magnify the importance of mere matters of history, because it is so much easier to understand or explain many of the terms and doctrines of real property law by approaching them historically, and, indeed, many of them cannot otherwise be understood at all. And yet we all have this constant, serious, and often difficult task, of separating matter …

The Old Roman Law And A Modern American Code, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

In Book II, on Property, Ownership, and its Modifications, the Porto Rican Code follows closely its Spanish prototype. The main variation in general outline is the omission from the American code of the special property in minerals and in intellectual productions.

The Old Common Law And The New Trusts, Ditlew M. Frederiksen

Michigan Law Review

T HE Civil Code of Porto Rico, our latest Roman American code, gives interesting proof of the fact that the two systems of law, the Roman and the English, which control most of the nations of the civilized world and their dependencies, are, in their essence, but slightly different enunciations of the same principles of natural justice. The parent of the Civil Code of Porto Rico1 is the Spanish Civil Code,2 in force in Spain since May I, 1889, and extended to Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines on July 31, 1889. The Spanish Civil-Code is the result of the …

English History And The Study Of English Law, Arthur Lyon Cross

Michigan Law Review

Ranke, the Nestor of modern historical research, was wont to say that he only wanted to know how things had happened. Lamprecht, however, more truly indicated the aim and purpose of the investigation of the past when he said that be wanted to know how things had become. Another distinction between the schools which these two men represent is, that one is primarily interested in political affairs, while the other would include within the historical field all phases of social activity. A survey of the course of scholarship during the century just closed, leads to the conclusion that this latter …

Need Of A National Incorporation Law, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

Articles

When the report of the Committee on Uniformity of legislation was submitted to the last American Bar Association, and consideration of the legal problems growing out of modem commercial combinations, was urged as a matter proper for discussion and action by that association, it was gravely argued by distinguished lawyers present that there was no legal problem to be solved. The Committee on Commercial Law, however, thought otherwise and said:- "The American people look to the American Bar for leadership on this question. Some one must lead. If not the lawyer, then it will be the demagogue."

The Conveyance Of Estates In Fee By Deed : Being A Statement Of The Principles Of Law Involved In The Drafting And Interpretation Of Deeds Of Conveyance And In The Examination Of Title To Real Property, James H. Brewster

Books

The purpose of the writer has been to state the principles of law applicable to the transfer of the title to real property by deed, in such manner as to assist one in drafting and interpreting the instrument of transfer.

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, January 5, 1904 - March 15, 1904, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

The Law Of Reason, Fredrick Sir Pollock

Michigan Law Review

If there is one virtue that our books of authority claim for the Common Law more positively than another, it is that of being reasonable. The law is even said to be the perfection of reason. Not that the meaning of that saying is exhausted by the construction which a layman would naturally put upon it. For, as Coke had to tell King James I., much to his displeasure, there is an artificial reason of the law. Certainty is among the first objects of systematic justice. General principles being once fixed, the only way to attain certainty is to work …

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The Law School-Changes in the Faculty--Readjustment of Courses of Study; Sir Frederick Pollock's Visit to Michigan; The Second Lecture--The Scales of Justice; The Development of Criminal Law; The Law of Reason; Corporations--railroads--Stockholding Corporations--Combinations in Restraint of Trade and Commerce--consolidation of Parallel and Competing Lines; Constitutional law--Classification--Limit of Judicial Construction;

The Relation Of The Federal And The State Judiciary To Each Other, Horace R. Lurton

Michigan Law Review

In the very cordial invitation extended to me by the distinguished President of your Bar Association to participate in the observance of this occasion it was urged that I should make a short address upon the relations of the Federal and State Judiciary to each other. As a reason for my taking this particular subject it was suggested by him that I had had the advantage of a considerable service under both systems.

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

Historical Treatises

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 …

Journal Of The Senate Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, January 7, 1902 - March 18, 1902, Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Trusts: Their Advantages And Disadvantages, Arthur Albertus Denico

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

This essay defines what a Trust is (circa 1899) and the numerous advantages and disadvantages a Trust can provide to a growing business, individual or society as a whole.

Chester Bradley Jordan, “Saunders W. Cooper,” In 1 Proceedings Of The Bar Association Of The State Of New Hampshire 169 (N.S. 1900)

Documents from Making Habeas Work: A Legal History (monograph)

The article is an extended biographical sketch of Cooper that passes over this (alleged smuggling) episode.

The Canadian Law List (Hardy's) 1900, H. Cartwright

Thompson Rare Book Collection

The Canadian Law List (Hardy's) 1900 edited by H. Cartqright, Esq. includes:

• Canadian law firms and barristers;
• Canadian Commissioners;
• Dominion Laws;
• Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada;
• Judges;
• Synopsis of laws.3

Content is organized by province.