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Family & Matrimonial Lawby Sophie Tarassenko; Elissa Da Costa
Routledge-Cavendish 2000; US$ 79.95A guide to matrimonial proceedings, this work provides procedural tables, checklists, precedents and hints on how to avoid pitfalls. Coverage includes undefended and defended petitions, financial relief, custody of children, costs, enforcement, court fees and appeals. more...
Deadliest Enemiesby Thomas Biolsi
University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95Racial tension between Native American and white people on and near Indian reservations is an ongoing problem in the United States. As far back as 1886, the Supreme Court said that "because of local ill feeling, the people of the United States where [Indian tribes] are found are often their deadliest enemies. more...
Anne Orthwood's Bastardby John Ruston Pagan
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 24.99In 1663, an indentured servant, Anne Orthwood, was impregnated with twins in a tavern in Northampton County, Virginia. Orthwood died soon after giving birth; one of the twins, Jasper, survived. Orthwood's illegitimate pregnancy sparked four related cases that came before the Northampton magistrates -- who coincidentally held court in the same tavern -- between 1664 and 1686. These interrelated cases and the decisions rendered in them are notable for the ways in which the Virginia colonists modif more...
Reform and Regretby Larry W. Yackle
Oxford University Press 1989; US$ 110.00This volume provides a descriptive analysis of the campaign to achieve prison reform in Alabama through the federal courts. more...
Slipping Backwardby James W. Hewitt
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 45.00Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court , written by one of the state?s leading legal minds, is the first history of the Nebraska Supreme Court and the first book-length study of a Great Plains supreme court. James W. Hewitt draws on his intimate knowledge of the subject matter gleaned from years as a lawyer in Nebraska and applies a historian?s objectivity to the analysis. more...
Escaping Salemby Richard Godbeer
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 9.00Tells the story of Kate Branch, a seventeen-year-old afflicted by strange visions and given to blood-chilling wails of pain and fright. Branch accused several women of bewitching her, two of whom were put on trial for witchcraft. This work takes us inside the courtroom - and inside the minds of the surprisingly skeptical Stamford town folk. more...
Employment Lawby Deborah J. Lockton
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 28.00Employment law is one of the fastest moving areas in the law, with statuary changes, European decisions and new cases changing the detail very rapidly. This work steers the student through the complexities providing summary points, exercises and additional reading. more...
Discrimination Law and Employment Issuesby David Martin
Thorogood Publishing 2006; US$ 95.00Analyzes the practical aspects of dealing with each of the anti-discrimination laws. This work demonstrates how to ensure that paperwork and systems comply totally with the law and provides a range of case studies to illustrate the key issues and bring them to life. more...
Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Countryby Mark R. Ellis
University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 45.00Celebrated accounts of lawless towns that relied on the extra-legal justice of armed citizens and hired gunmen are part of the enduring cultural legacy of the American West. This work presents a case study of law and legal culture in Lincoln County, Nebraska, during the nineteenth century. It also examines legal institutions on the Great Plains. more...
The Salem Witch Trialsby K. David Goss
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 55.00Part of the enduring fascination of the Salem witch trials is the fact that, to date, no one theory has been able to fully explain the events that ravaged Salem in 1692. Countless causes, from ergot-infected rye to actual demonic posession, have been offered to explain why the accusations and erratic behavior of seven village girls left hundreds accused, over 20 dead, and the townspeople of eastern Massachusetts shaken. Through a multitude of resources, this authoritative reference guide explores the Salem Witchcraft episode, including the religious and political climate in Puritan New England, and accessibly summarizes the major interpretations of, and reactions to, the events, from the seventeenth century until the present day. Biographical... more...









