The Abolition of Inheritance. - Couverture souple

Read, Harlan Eugene

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1240068816 ISBN 13 : 9781240068814

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 LibraryCTRG95-B3846Includes index.New York: Macmillan, 1918. xxvii, [3], 312 p.; 20 cm

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Need of Great Funds for War. The Present Status of the Inheritance Tax. The Inheritance Privilege Must be Entirely A bolished. Marshall Field died in 1906. His immense fortune, estimated at one hundred and twenty-five million, passed into the hands of trustees for his grandsons, then twelve and ten years old respectively, to be held for them, on account of their incapacity, until they should become fifty years old. The public was suddenly shaken from what Milton calls the secure falsity of an old opinion ;viz., that great fortunes are quickly dissolved in the hands of heirs, and therefore not dangerous. The certainty that our law of inheritance can and does create a money aristocracy as dangerous as monarchy itself, was vigorously discussed in press, pulpit and platform. The Chicago Tribune and nearly every other big paper in the country printed the Marshall Field will in full. Theodore Roosevelt, then President of the United States, always quick to understand and respond to the current of popular thought, injected into his annual messagex the i Presidents Message to the 60th Congress, Dec.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gale, Making of Modern Law
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1240068816
• ISBN 13: 9781240068814
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 342
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