Search Results: Titles starting with G from The Lawbook Exchange Ltd

1996. [Latin America]. Gaceta Oficial del Acuerdo de Cartagena. Buffalo, NY: W.S. Hein, [1994-1997]. Volumes 1-6 (1983-1996) in 7 books. Green gilt stamped cloth. New. Publisher's Price USD 1,750. Special $250. * Reprint edition. Cartagena Series. The Andean Community, (renamed in 1996, originally the Grupo Andino, which began publishing the Gaceta in 1983) is the regional economic organization which promotes a common market among the countries of the Andean region in South America. Its current members are Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. Published in Spanish, the official language of the Andean community, this important publication is the official source of all treaties, agreements, decisions, resolutions, and other acts of the Community's organs. The Gaceta is published irregularly and its other important documents of the Court of Justice are also published in the Gaceta.

1986. Marak, Julius. Garo Customary Laws and Practices: A Sociological Study. Calcutta: Firma Kim Private LTD., 1986. xi, 221 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket with light fading to spine, price clip. $25.

2005. Trost, Jennifer. Gateway to Justice: The Juvenile Court and Progressive Child Welfare in a Southern City. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xi, 209 pp. Original cloth, with stamped spine. New, $17. * "The Juvenile Court of Memphis, founded in 1910, directed delinquent and dependent children into a variety of private charitable organizations and public correctional facilities. Drawing on the court's case files and other primary sources, Jennifer Trost explains the complex interactions between parents, children, and welfare officials in the urban South" (Publisher's description).

2006. Jones, Karen. Gender and Petty Crime in Late Medieval England: the Local Courts in Kent, 1460-1560. Woodbridge, [UK]: Boydell Press, [2006]. ix, 242 pp. Hardcover. Fine. Internally clean. $95. * Contents: Map of Kent, c. 1500; 1.; Introduction; 2.; Offences Against Property; 3.; Physical Violence; 4.; Verbal Violence; 5.; Sexual Misbehaviour; 6.; Gendered Crimes; 7.; Conclusion.

2010. ISBN-13: 9781584774983; ISBN-10: 1584774983. "The Most Important Treatise on Criminal Law Produced by American Legal Scholarship" Hall, Jerome. General Principles of Criminal Law. Second Edition. Originally published: Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, [1960]. xii, 642 pp. Reprinted 2005, 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774983; ISBN-10: 1584774983. Hardcover. New. $60. * First published to great acclaim in 1947, Hall's General Principles of Criminal Law is one of the undisputed classics in its field. It provides more than a broad overview. Drawing on his expertise in jurisprudence and the work of the legal realists, it analyzes the principles that comprise criminal activity with an emphasis on its creation and definition by officials. This process is explored in the chapters on criminology, criminal theory and penal theory and, in more specific terms, the chapters on legality, mens rea, harm, causation, punishment, strict liability, ignorance and mistake, necessity and… Read More

2005. ISBN-13: 9781584774983; ISBN-10: 1584774983. "The Most Important Treatise on Criminal Law Produced by American Legal Scholarship" Hall, Jerome. General Principles of Criminal Law. Second Edition. Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, [1960]. xii, 642 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774983; ISBN-10: 1584774983. Hardcover. New. $39.95 * First published to great acclaim in 1947, Hall's General Principles of Criminal Law is one of the undisputed classics in its field. It provides more than a broad overview. Drawing on his expertise in jurisprudence and the work of the legal realists, it analyzes the principles that comprise criminal activity with an emphasis on its creation and definition by officials. This process is explored in the chapters on criminology, criminal theory and penal theory and, in more specific terms, the chapters on legality, mens rea, harm, causation, punishment, strict liability, ignorance and mistake, necessity and coercion, mental disease,… Read More

2005. [New Jersey]. [Vroom, Garret D.W., and William M. Lanning, Compilers]. General Statutes of New Jersey. Published Under the Authority of the Legislature, by Virtue of an Act Approved April 4, 1894, and a Supplement Thereto, Approved March 20, 1895. Jersey City: Frederick D. Linn & Co., 1896. [With] Luce, Edward J., Compiler. Table of Statutes Included in The General Statutes of New Jersey 1703-1895. Newark: Soney & Sage, 1900. With a new introduction and new table of contents by Paul Axel-Lute, Collection Development Librarian, Rutgers School of Law Library, Newark. 3 volumes. xii, lxxvi, 4098 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584776734. ISBN-10: 1584776730. Cloth bound. Smythe sewn. Hardcover. New. $595. * This compilation succeeded the previous edition of 1877. Two-and-a-half times the size of its predecessor, it records the greatest increase in public general legislation between any two consecutive compilations in New Jersey's history. Its bulk pays witness to the… Read More

1990. Kelsen, Hans [1881-1973]. General Theory of Law and State. Translated by Anders Wedberg. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945. Reprint. Birmingham: The Legal Classics Library, [1990]. xxxiii, 516 pp. Calf, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $45. * "This book is more than a thorough and authoritative presentation by Dr. Kelsen of his pure theory of law. The pure theory of law covers 388 pages, and this, of course, includes the theory of the state as well as the theory of the law. In addition, there is an appendix in which various philosophical approaches...are presented. And following the appendix is a valuable list of writings by Kelsen--his books, articles, and translations of both--and then a list of writings by other scholars in which the pure theory of law is discussed.... No one can approach this magnificent philosophical structure without respect and lasting admiration for an intellectual system equal in completeness to the… Read More

2010. ISBN-13: 9781584774983; ISBN-10: 1584774983. "The Most Important Treatise on Criminal Law Produced by American Legal Scholarship" Hall, Jerome. General Principles of Criminal Law. Second Edition. Originally published: Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, [1960]. xii, 642 pp. Reprinted 2005, 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774983; ISBN-10: 1584774983. Laminate hardcover. Corners bumped. Else fine. $39.95 * First published to great acclaim in 1947, Hall's General Principles of Criminal Law is one of the undisputed classics in its field. It provides more than a broad overview. Drawing on his expertise in jurisprudence and the work of the legal realists, it analyzes the principles that comprise criminal activity with an emphasis on its creation and definition by officials. This process is explored in the chapters on criminology, criminal theory and penal theory and, in more specific terms, the chapters on legality, mens rea, harm, causation, punishment, strict liability,… Read More

1912. Various European Authors. A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons and Movements in Continental Legal History. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1912. liii, 754 pp. Original blue cloth, with gilt stamped spine. Light shelfwear. Maps, fold-out map. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Inscription on premliminary page. $40. * J.H. Wigmore, chairman of the editorial committee for this series and editor of this volume.

2011. ISBN-13: 9781584779391; ISBN-10: 158477939X. Dwarris, Sir Fortunatus [1786-1860]. A General Treatise on Statutes. Their Rules of Construction, and the Proper Boundaries of Legislation and of Judicial Interpretation. With American Notes and Additions, and with Notes and Maxims of Constitutional and of Statute Construction. Also a Treatise on Constitutional Limitations Upon the National and State Legislative Power; With a Chapter on Parliamentary Law and Parliamentary Privileges. By Platt Potter. Originally published: Albany: William Gould & Sons, 1871. xxiv, [33]-693 pp. Reprinted 2009, 2011 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584779391; ISBN-10: 158477939X. Hardcover. Small chips to top and bottom of cover. Else fine. $35. * Final American edition. Dwarris' Treatise is a work on the construction and interpretation of statutes and constitutions, made valuable to the American practitioner by the work of the New York jurist, Platt Potter. According to Sweet & Maxwell, it includes "an… Read More

1816. New Orleans: Peter K. Wagner, 1816. 3 vols.. New Orleans: Peter K. Wagner, 1816. 3 vols. A Landmark in the Legal History of the Louisiana Purchase Martin, Francois-Xavier [1762-1846]. A General Digest of the Acts of the Legislatures of the Late Territory of Orleans and of the State of Louisiana, And the Ordinances of the Governor Under the Territorial Government: Preceded by the Treaty of Cession, The Constitution of the United States, And of the State, With the Acts of Congress, Relating to the Government of the Country and the Land Claims Therein. Published Under a Resolve of the Legislature. New Orleans: Printed by Peter K. Wagner, 1816. Three volumes. 742; 696; 290, 295-513, [3], 107 pp. Volume III lacking pp. 291-294, which are supplied in facsimile. English and French translation on facing pages. Added title page in French reading: Digeste General des Actes des Legislatures du Territoire d'Orleans et de l'Etat de la Louisiane... Folding table in Volume I. Four pages of contemporary… Read More

2005. ISBN-13: 9781584774785; ISBN-10: 1584774789. "Probably the Best Modern History of a Particular Branch of English Law" Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames. A General View of the Criminal Law of England. Originally published: London: Macmillan and Co., 1863. xii, 499 pp. Reprinted 2005 The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774785; ISBN-10: 1584774789. Hardcover. New. $36.95 * Reprint of the first edition. "When it appeared in 1883 it was probably the best modern history of a particular branch of English law that had yet appeared in England. It won high praise from Pollock and Maitland. English criminal law, they said, will be fortunate in its historians, `for it will fall into the hands of Matthew Hale and Fitzjames Stephen.' Though the more intensive study of the earlier history of our law has rendered some parts of it obsolete, it is still the best history of the later stages of the law. And it has another merit which it can never lose. The fact that its author was a practising lawyer and a… Read More

2010. ISBN-13: 9781584774983; ISBN-10: 1584774983. "The Most Important Treatise on Criminal Law Produced by American Legal Scholarship" Hall, Jerome. General Principles of Criminal Law. Second Edition. Originally published: Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, [1960]. xii, 642 pp. Reprinted 2005, 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774983; ISBN-10: 1584774983. Hardcover. 2" tear to front cover. Else fine. $39.95 * First published to great acclaim in 1947, Hall's General Principles of Criminal Law is one of the undisputed classics in its field. It provides more than a broad overview. Drawing on his expertise in jurisprudence and the work of the legal realists, it analyzes the principles that comprise criminal activity with an emphasis on its creation and definition by officials. This process is explored in the chapters on criminology, criminal theory and penal theory and, in more specific terms, the chapters on legality, mens rea, harm, causation, punishment, strict liability,… Read More

2007. ISBN-13: 9781584777175; ISBN-10: 1584777176. "The Scope of the Work is Truly Universal" Kelsen, Hans. General Theory of Law and State. Translated by Anders Wedberg. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945. xxxiii, 516 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777175; ISBN-10: 1584777176. Paperback. New. $49.95 * Reprint of the first edition. This classic work by the important Austrian jurist is the fullest exposition of his enormously influential pure theory of law, which includes a theory of the state. It also has an extensive appendix that discusses the pure theory in comparison with the law of nature, positivism, historical natural law, metaphysical dualism and scientific-critical philosophy. "The scope of the work is truly universal. It never loses itself in vague generalities or in unconnected fragments of thought. On the contrary, precision in the formulation of details and rigorous system are characteristic features of the exposition: only a mind fully… Read More

2007. ISBN-13: 9781584777175; ISBN-10: 1584777176. Kelsen, Hans. General Theory of Law and State. Translated by Anders Wedberg. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945. xxxiii, 516 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584777175; ISBN-10: 1584777176. Paperback. Cover and page edges lightly soiled and bent. $24. * Reprint of the first edition. This classic work by the important Austrian jurist is the fullest exposition of his enormously influential pure theory of law, which includes a theory of the state. It also has an extensive appendix that discusses the pure theory in comparison with the law of nature, positivism, historical natural law, metaphysical dualism and scientific-critical philosophy. "The scope of the work is truly universal. It never loses itself in vague generalities or in unconnected fragments of thought. On the contrary, precision in the formulation of details and rigorous system are characteristic features of the exposition: only a mind fully concentrated… Read More

1998. ISBN-13: 9781886363472; ISBN-10: 1886363471. [Maitland, Frederic William]. A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons & Movements in Continental Legal History. By Various European Authors. With an introduction by Albert Kocourek. Boston: Little, Brown, 1912. liii, 754 pp. Reprinted 1998 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363472. ISBN-10: 1886363471. Cloth bound, smythe sewn, hardcover. New. $21.95 * Published as part of The Continental Legal History Series under the auspices of the Association of American Law Schools. A survey of legal history in Western Europe from medieval to modern times, the work includes translations into English from leading authorities on European legal history such as Carlo Calisse, Jean Brissaud, Heinrich Brunner, Richard Schroeder, Rafael Altimara and Frederic W. Maitland.

1890. Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames [1829-1894]. A General View of the Criminal Law of England. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. ix, 399 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary pebbled cloth, black-stamped frames to boards, gilt title and black-stamped fillets to spines. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends and corners, which are bumped, hinges starting, crack in text block between front free endpaper and half-title, bookplate of Van Vechten Veeder to front pastedown, moderate toning to interior. $250. * Second edition. "When it appeared in 1883 it was probably the best modern history of a particular branch of English law that had yet appeared in England. It won high praise from Pollock and Maitland." (Holdsworth). Also a successful New York City attorney, Van Vechten Veeder [1867-1942] was United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Holdsworth, The Historians of Anglo-American Law 78.

2001. ISBN-13: 9781584771203; ISBN-10: 1584771208. Cooley, Thomas M. The General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States of America. Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1880. xxxix, 376 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584771203; ISBN-10: 1584771208. Hardcover. New. $85. * Reprint of the first edition of the leading textbook of its time on the subject of constitutional law. In this work Cooley "presents briefly yet comprehensively the general principles of constitutional law as developed under the American system both national and state.

2011. ISBN-13: 9781616191757; ISBN-10: 1616191759. "An Excellent Statutory History of the English Law" Dwarris, Sir Fortunatus [1786-1860]. A General Treatise on Statutes. Their Rules of Construction, and the Proper Boundaries of Legislation and of Judicial Interpretation. With American Notes and Additions, and with Notes and Maxims of Constitutional and of Statute Construction. Also a Treatise on Constitutional Limitations Upon the National and State Legislative Power; With a Chapter on Parliamentary Law and Parliamentary Privileges. By Platt Potter. Originally published: Albany: William Gould & Sons, 1871. xxiv, [33]-693 pp. Reprinted 2009, 2011 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616191757; ISBN-10: 1616191759. Paperback. New. $31.95 * Final American edition. Dwarris' Treatise is a work on the construction and interpretation of statutes and constitutions, made valuable to the American practitioner by the work of the New York jurist, Platt Potter. According to Sweet & Maxwell, it includes… Read More