Random Notes on the Government of Rhode Island. - Couverture souple

Sheffield, William P

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1240099908 ISBN 13 : 9781240099900

Editeur : Gale Ecco, 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 Libraryocm19215473Newport, R.I.: Daily News Job Print, 1897. 63 p.; 23 cm.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The founders of the Rhode Island Colony purchased their lands of the I ndians. They incorporated themselves into a civil society by mutual agreement. As the proprietors of the soil, they arrogated to themselves the right to say who should come to reside upon it, and who should participate in the government of the civil society, which they had established. This is alike true of the colonies established at Providence, at Portsmouth, and at Newport. Samuel Gorton, an outcast from Plymouth, came to Portsmouth in December, 1638. He denied the validity of their act of incorporation because the colony had no charter, and because the incorporation was without the recognition of the King sauthority ;G orton soon obtained converts to his contention and caused a division among the colonists, whereupon the elected ofificers of the colony, with some of their adherents, to avoid dissension, entered into a covenant to found a colony, and removed to and founded Newport on the last day of A pril, 1639. The remaining colonists at Portsmouth, on the day of the withdrawal of their associates, entered into a new agreement of incorporation, in which they fully recognized the kings authority. Perhaps the next year, 1640, an unfortunate occurrence took place, which occasioned sharp differences of opinion and brought to a test the validity of Gorton scontention, Gorton and a widow woman occupied adjoining lands; a cow belonging to the widow escaped and entered Gorton sgrounds, an employee of Gorton, went to drive the cow from his ground and according to the report of the case, by the testimony advanced upon the trial, beat and stoned the cow in an unmerciful and cruel manner ;the widow observing the treatment of her cow, went into Gorton sground and attempted to reclaim the cow, whereupon Gorton smaid seized the widow by the hair, pulled her down and beat her. The widow at once went
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gale Ecco, Making of Modern Law
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1240099908
• ISBN 13: 9781240099900
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 70
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible