Proceedings on Unveiling the Monument to Caesar Rodney and the Oration Delivered on the Occasion. - Couverture souple

Bayard, Thomas F

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1240009429 ISBN 13 : 9781240009428

Editeur : Gale, Making of Modern Law, 2010

Synopsis

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School Libraryocm13515821Proceedings held at Dover, Delaware, October 30th, 1889.Wilmington, Del.: Delaware Printing, 1889. 74 p., [1] folded leaf of plates: facsim.; 23 cm.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The History of the Monument. The home of Caesar Rodney was at Poplar Grove, St. Jones Neck, Kent county, Delaware, where he died on the 29th of June, 1784. His place of interment was on the estate where he spent his days, and was unmarked save by a stone placed there recently by the Hon. Joseph P. Comegys, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Delaware. In this neglected condition the grave of this distinguished Revolutionar statesman and warrior remained till the year 1887. In November, 1887, an organization was formed of 3oung men of Dover to put a fitting monument over Caesar Rodney sremains. The organization thus formed took the name of The Rodney Club. The officers originally chosen were President, William G. Kurbix, Secretary, Henry Ridgely, Jr., Treasurer, Robert R. P. Bradford. In September, 1889, Henry Ridgely was elected president of the Club, vice William G. Kerbin, who had removed to New York ;and W. Lee Cannon was elected secretary. The movement at once received generous pviblic support and universal commendation. The Rodney Club brought the matter to the attention of the Delaware Legislature, and the following joint resolution was passed at Dover, February 20th, 1889: Whereas, It is right and proper that patriots should be especially honored, and the remembrance of their good deeds preserved for the encouragement cf patriotism in future generations ;and as other States have taken measures to honor their patriotic sires, Delaware should not be derelict in herdutjto those who in perilous times pledged their fortunes and their sacred honor, to gain and secure for us peace, happiness and prosperity, unexampled in the history of nations; and Whereas.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gale, Making of Modern Law
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1240009429
• ISBN 13: 9781240009428
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 76
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