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Changes In The Balance Of Governmental Power, Thomas M. Cooley

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“In taking up for brief review the action of the convention in framing, and that of the people of the Union in adopting the Federal Constitution ninety years ago, we should be able after such a lapse of time, and in view of our diversified experience under it, to deal with it in a spirit of dispassionate criticism, and without boasting or unreasonable exultation. Yet we may perhaps truly say that the act itself was the most notable in government-making of which history bears record….”

The State Of The Law: A Test Of National Progress, Thomas M. Cooley

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“The work to which the student in law first addresses himself is the fixing in his mind of certain principles which are agreed upon, or are supposed to be, and which collectively constitute the body of the law…. The brief remarks that I shall make will be addressed to two points: 1. That the law of the land must in the main be the handiwork of those who administer and practice it, and 2, That the final and most satisfactory evidence of assured national advancement must be found in the state of the law….”

Alumni Of The Law Department, 1844-1874, Indiana University

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Names and residences of graduates of the Law Department between the years 1844 and 1874. These pages are a portion of the Report of Indiana University published in 1875.

Washington: His Character And The Lessons To Be Drawn From It, Thomas M. Cooley

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Justice Cooley’s memorial on the occasion of Washington’s birthday: “In fabulous history nations are founded by gods. But these gods are only impersonations of the rough virtues most prized in a barbarous age, and their worship is therefore an adoration of those qualities … We have no fabulous history of our nation … Great characters may loom up as the builders, but they are not simply exaggerated personifications of power and force; they are men with human qualities, whose lives, in the records which are preserved, are open to our inspection; we may see what manner of men they were, …

With Some Considerations Regarding The Study Of The Law, Thomas M. Cooley

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Thomas M. Cooley's editions of Blackstone's Commentaries were the 19th century's "standard editions" of American analyses of the title. "The Commentaries of Mr. Justice Blackstone have now for more than a century been the wonder and delight of persons whose curiosity or interest have led hem to investigate the constitution and laws of Great Britain, the condition of things from which they grew, and the reasons upon which they rest. Lapse of time does not seem to diminish their attractions, or to lesson materially their practical value." Cooley's Preface explains that he came to edit the Commentaries with the awareness …

The Late Judge Mcdonald

David McDonald (1842-1853)

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Journal Of David Mcdonald, David Mcdonald

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Handwritten journal of David McDonald who is recognized as the first Professor of Law at Indiana University. The journal is undated but contains a transcribed article from the Cincinnati Gazette dated April 17, 1865.

McDonald was born in Millersburg, Kentucky and moved to Indiana when he was 14, in 1817. He eventually became a school teacher in Washington, before meeting a local lawyer who encouraged him to study law. He was licensed to practice in the Circuit Courts in 1830. He served as a member of the Indiana Legislature (1833-34) as well as being elected judge of the 10th Circuit …

On The Study Of Law: An Address At The Opening Of The Law Department Of The University Of Michigan, October 3, 1859, James V. Campbell

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Professor Campbell's address on the occasion of the inauguration of the Department of Law at the University of Michigan, laying out the hopes for and expectations of the newly-created unit. He sweeps wide through the history of the State and the nobility of the profession: "Let everyone come to the study of the Law with a proper sense of its dignity and importance."

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, …

Thirteenth Annual Commencement Of The Law Department Program, 1857

Recognition Ceremony

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Judge Tucker's Address, N. Beverley Tucker

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Introductory Address On The Study Of The Law Delivered In The Chapel Of Indiana University, David Mcdonald

David McDonald (1842-1853)

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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 …

Law Lecture At William And Mary, N. Beverley Tucker

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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 …