"Lone Star Justice" is the first major effort in a single volume to explain how the criminal justice system is organized and operated in the state of Texas. The authors review the history and administration of justice dating from the first arrival of Anglo-Americans in the 1820's to the present day. The work is described as "interdisciplinary" and includes a host of philosophies, professions, and practices. From its historical roots to its contemporary operations, this book offers "user friendly" yet carefully detailed explanation of criminal justice in Texas. Using facts and interesting anecd... View More...
Some of the law officers who served the West during the last half of the nineteenth century drifted from one side of the law to the other and sold their talents to whichever side offered the most advantage. Others used their positions as cover for their criminal activities.The lawmen in this book were serious offenders against the laws they had at one time sworn to uphold. Their skills were honed in range wars and family feuds and polished along the cattle trails, in the saloons and banks, and on the trains of the West.Some of them did good work enforcing the law when that was their job. Other... View More...
383 pages, including index. Free shipping media mail. Definitions, backgrounds, and explanations of the basic concepts, the statutes, court cases, and agencies of federal, state, and local government. This book can be used in two ways. it is a dictionary in which terms are listed alphabetically by subject matter; the reader can find a term, by consulting a particular chapter, or, when in doubt as to the usage of a term, by consulting the INDEX. It is also a study guide; a complete reading of a chapter will provide the reader with basic information in a subject area and help in preparation for... View More...
In this first comprehensive study of women's property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on women's lives. By focusing on such areas such as conveyancing, contracts, divorce, separate estates, and widows' provisions, Salmon presents a full picture of women's legal rights from 1750 to 1830.Salmon shows that the law assumes women would remain dependent and subservient after marriage. She documents the legal rights of women prior to the Revolution and traces a gradual but steady extension of the ability of wives to own and control property during ... View More...
The Poor Law had an extreme impact on English and Welsh society from the sixteenth century, right through to the twentieth. It played a central role in the country's social and political development from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution, and beyond. Initially, the regulations were designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve poverty. The Poor Laws touched nearly every aspect of the lives of very many families over five centuries: those who found it necessary to seek help in their hours of need, as well as those who organized and paid for the relief that the deserving poor soug... View More...
62 pages, including index. Survival of the records varies from parish to parish, town to town and, from 1834, Poor Law Union to Poor Law Union. View More...
The publication herewith presented,an index to the probate cases filed in Brazos County, Texas, is No. 21 of the Texas series of counties. The publication is intended to meet the requirements of day-to-day usage by the officials of the county, attorneys, businessmen, and other citizens who have occasion to consult probate case records for the proper conduct of their affairs. The publication may be used by historians and genealogists to obtain references to unpublished source material. 45 pages.
Names include: Chatham, Henserling, Milberger, Pearson, Scanlin, Weedon, View More...
"Knowing laws at the time of your ancetors lived is an important research tool, since so many areas of their lives were governed by them. Free Shipping." View More...
