Popular Law-making eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 485 pages of information about Popular Law-making.

Popular Law-making eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 485 pages of information about Popular Law-making.
the Orange River
  Colony. 
Blacklists (see Boycotts),
  American statutes against;
  in modern American statutes;
  laws against in Germany and Austria. 
Blackmail statutes. 
Blackstone quoted as to legislation. 
“Bloody” statute against heretics, 1539. 
Boards and commissions,
  growth of;
  must be bi-partisan. 
Bounties,
  constitutional objection to;
  usually unconstitutional;
  in foreign countries;
  Federal bounties;
  public appropriations may be justified in times of emergency;
  State usual subjects of. 
Bows and arrows (see Archery) much used in England. 
Boycotts (see Conspiracy)
  first recorded precedent of in 1221;
  “against the common weal of the people” made unlawful in 1503;
  in modern times;
  intent the test;
  statutes;
  definitions of;
  unlawful under anti-trust laws;
  in modern American statutes;
  Alabama definition of;
  no European legislation on;
  right to prosecute as bearing upon right to freedom of speech. 
Brewer, Justice, Yale address quoted
Bribery of votes by employment, etc. (see Corruption);
  recent statute against. 
Building,
  laws regulating;
  sanitary regulations under police power. 
Bulk, sales in. 
Business corporations, act of, Massachusetts. 
By-laws,
  of guilds must not be in restraint of trade;
  against the common weal of the people made unlawful in 1503;
  of corporations must be reasonable;
  illegal, forbidden, 1503;
  forbidding appeal to the law courts unlawful;
  the Norwich tailors’ case.

Cabinet, functions of in England. 
Cade, Jack,
  attainder of;
  rebellion of, its effect, etc
Canada, legislation on arbitration. 
Canon law (see Church Law),
  supplanted by common law;
  early jealousy of. 
Canons of the Church (see Canon Law). 
Canute, laws of. 
Capital, combinations of (see Trusts). 
Capital punishment, laws abolishing. 
Carlyle, his remark on legislation. 
Carriers, rates of fixed by law. 
Carter, James C., quoted. 
Cartoons, laws against. 
Cash payment of wages,
  danger of laws for. 
Caucuses (see Primaries), regulation of by law. 
Celibacy of priests a modern doctrine. 
Cemeteries, eminent domain for. 
Centralization,
  by Federal incorporation law;
  as caused by the fourteenth amendment. 
Certificates (see Stock Certificates, Trust Certificates, etc.). 
Chancellor (see Injunction). 
Chancery (see Equity Jurisdiction),
  early jealousy of by the people;
  court of, origin;
  the star chamber;
  statute against jurisdiction;
  in labor disputes. 
Charity (see Bounties), modern legislation concerning. 
Charter of liberties,
  of Henry I;
  of Henry II. 

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