Courts and Lawyers of New York: A History, 1609-1925, Band 1

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2005 - 1421 Seiten
This massive illustrated history of the courts and lawyers of New York from 1609-1925 contains a great deal of information that is not available elsewhere. Contents: Part I-Dutch Period: The Bases of American Law, The Dutch Legal System, The Patrons and Their Courts, Burgher Government, Dutch Magistrates. Part II-English Period: The Conflicting Land Titles, The Duke of York's Laws, The Leisler Case. Part III-American Period: Constitutional History, The Courts of Last Resort, The Supreme Court, The Court of Chancery. Part IV: Judicial Distracts and Associations of the Bar, Law Libraries and Law Schools. 59 illustrations.
 

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Chapter XXVIICornbury to Tryon17021775
507
Chapter XXVIIIGenesis of State GovernmentThe
627
Chapter XXIXConstitutional History
659
Chapter XXXConstitutional HistoryThe Convention
677
Chapter XXXIConstitutional HistoryThe Convention
691
Chapter XXXIIConstitutional HistoryCommissions
711
Chapter XXXIIIThe Constitution of 1894
729
Chapter XXXIVConstitutional Convention of 1915
745

Chapter IXThe DirectorsGeneral
89
Chapter XNew Netherland Under Stuyvesant
113
Chapter XIBurgher Government
129
Chapter XIIThe First Convention and Its Result
153
Chapter XIIIDutch Magistrates The Governors and the Patroons
171
Chapter XIVDutch Magistrates The Governors Coun cil
197
Of the Inferior Courts
217
Chapter XVIDutch Magistrates and Lawyers Municipal Courts
257
Chapter XVIIThe Conflicting Land Titles
289
Chapter XVIIIThe Duke of Yorks Laws
301
Chapter XIXThe Nicolls and Lovelace Administrations
333
Chapter XXThe Brief Colve Period
369
Chapter XXIFirst Andros Administration
385
Chapter XXIIThe Dongan Régime
397
Chapter XXIIISecond Andros Period
431
Chapter XXIVThe Leisler Case
453
Chapter XXVAntiLeislerians in Power
465
Chapter XXVIBellomontNanfan Period
483
Chapter XXXVConstitutional HistoryThe Existing
757
Chapter XXXVIConstitutional HistoryThe Judiciary
777
Chapter XXXVIIThe Courts of Last Resort
789
Chapter XXXVIIIThe Supreme Court
829
Chapter XXXIXThe Court of Chancery
867
Chapter XLThe Judicial Districts and the County Sys
879
Chapter XLIFirst Judicial District
891
Chapter XLIISecond Judicial District
931
Chapter XLIIIThird Judicial District
977
Chapter XLIVFourth Judicial District
1089
Chapter XLVFifth Judicial District
1131
Chapter XLVISixth Judicial District
1165
Chapter XLVIISeventh Judicial District
1213
Chapter XLVIIIEighth Judicial District
1253
Chapter XLIXNinth Judicial District
1297
Chapter LAssociations of the Bar Law Libraries
1323
Chapter LINew Yorks Contribution to the Supreme
1343

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Seite 64 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Seite 17 - ... and that your Majesty would also vouchsafe to declare, that the awards, doings, and proceedings to the prejudice of your people, in any of the premises, shall not be drawn hereafter into consequence or example : and that your Majesty would be also graciously pleased, for the further comfort and safety of your people, to declare your royal will and pleasure, that in the things aforesaid all your officers and ministers shall serve you, according to the laws and statutes of this realm, as they tender...
Seite 17 - Majesty would be pleased to remove the said soldiers and mariners and that your people may not be so burdened in time to come. And that the aforesaid commissions for proceeding by martial law may be revoked and annulled. And that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
Seite 17 - All which they most humbly pray of your most excellent Majesty as their rights and liberties, according to the laws and statutes of this realm; and that your Majesty would also vouchsafe to declare that the awards, doings, and proceedings, to the prejudice of your people in any of the premises, shall not be drawn hereafter into consequence or example...
Seite 114 - He declared it to be treason to " petition against one's magistrates, whether there be cause or not ;" and he defended Kieft's conduct in rejecting the interference of the Twelve, saying: " If any one during my administration shall appeal, I will make him a foot shorter, and send the pieces to Holland, and let him appeal in that way.
Seite 16 - Majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament...

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Alden Chester [1848-1934] graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1871 and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1871. He practiced in Albany until 1895, when he was elected to the Third Judicial District Supreme Court. He was designated to the Appellate Division by Gov. Odell and served from 1902 to 1909. Chester returned to the trial bench at the behest of Gov. Hughes to help clear an unusual backlog of cases, and retired from the bench in 1918. Justice Chester served as deputy clerk of the New York State Assembly from 1874 to 1876; as a member of the Board of Public Instruction of Albany from 1881 to 1884 (and as its president in 1884); as an assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York from 1882 to 1885; and as an assistant corporation counsel of the City of Albany from 1894 to 1895. He also served as president of the Albany Medical College, a trustee of the Albany College of Pharmacy, a governor of Union University, and a special lecturer on the Federal judicial system at Albany Law School. He was president of the American Bar Association in 1919. Justice Chester was also the author of The Legal and Judicial History of New York (1911).

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