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.
  Conspiracy and the Trade Disputes acts (English);
  copied in Maryland;
  changing of law recommended in labor matters;
  English statute of, copied in Oklahoma;
  doctrine of, contended for by labor unions. 
Constitutional law (see Unconstitutional),
  growth of in America;
  applied by the courts in early England;
  Magna Charta to be interpreted by Ordainours;
  anticipates in earliest times U.S.  Supreme Court. 
Constitution, State,
  modern form of;
  adoption of by referendum. 
Constructive total loss, origin of doctrine. 
Contempt of court, effort to obtain jury trial, (see Chancery,
  Injunction
). 
Contract (see Freedom of), status of, desirable for labor. 
Convict-made goods, denial of to interstate commerce. 
Co-operation (see Profit Sharing). 
Corn, exportation of, forbidden in 1360. 
“Corners” (see Engrossing, Forestalling),
  unlawful to create at the common law;
  corners of wheat in Athens;
  by Joseph in Egypt. 
Coronation oaths, history of. 
Corporation,
  general discussion of, Chapter X;
  Federal incorporation;
  first appearance of secular trading corporations uncertain;
  companies corporate required to record their charters as early as
    1426;
  by-laws of must be reasonable;
  first trading companies under Elizabeth;
  early charters of difficult to find;
  business, origin of;
  discussion of;
  peculiar powers of incorporated persons;
  unknown in Rome and early England;
  special municipal corporations and monasteries;
  limited liability of, invented in Connecticut;
  form of the modern;
  Federal supervision;
  powers of in other States;
  prohibition of;
  holding stock by;
  earliest business companies;
  history of;
  limited liability;
  monopoly given to Federal corporations;
  powers of in other States;
  the Massachusetts law;
  two theories of legislation concerning;
  clash of State and Federal law;
  the “Trust problem”;
  discussion of subject by Massachusetts commissioners;
  now created under general laws;
  modern legislation concerning;
  liability of stockholders;
  payment in of stock;
  income;
  “publicity”;
  monopoly, consolidation, etc.;
  the holding company;
  public service;
  duration of franchise;
  powers of in other States;
  have no immunity from giving testimony;
  are subject to the criminal law;
  primarily through individual officers. 
Corrupt practices (see Bribery) election laws. 
Corruption (see Bribery), modern statute against. 
Council, the great, was originally executive and judicial as well as
  legislative (see Three Functions of Government);
  primarily judicial;
  legislation incidental to judicial judgments;
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