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.
  of children;
  night work;
  general discussion;
  child labor prohibited;
  age limit;
  school certificates, etc.;
  educational restrictions;
  mines;
  dangerous or immoral occupations;
  railroads and telegraph;
  unsanitary trades;
  foreign legislation. 
House of Commons, has sole power of taxation;
  growth of legislative power (see Parliament). 
House of Lords, abolished 1648. 
“House of Mirth” at Albany. 
Husband and wife, may testify against each other;
  contracts between may be regulated;
  in divorce matters;
  right to guardianship of children;
  husband is head of the family;
  may fix the abode;
  power of mother over children;
  duty of the husband to support the wife and children;
  they are joint guardians of children;
  may be witnesses against each other.

Ice, Massachusetts convention to regulate price of. 
Immigration, restriction of by act of Congress. 
Immorality made a crime. 
Immunity, principle of discussed (see Incriminating Evidence). 
Impeachment, revival of, process for, in 1621. 
Imports (see Duties). 
Imprisonment for debt, in the law merchant;
  forbidden in United States. 
Improvements (see Internal Improvements.)
Income tax, history of;
  in England;
  may be graded. 
Incriminating evidence, principle protecting a man from
    self incrimination;
  of corporations. 
Indeterminate sentences. 
Indexes (see Statutes), should be some system of. 
Indians, American, legislation referring to, under Cromwell;
  citizenship;
  history of legislation concerning. 
Individual rights, legislation relating to, chapter concerning, chapter
    XV. 
Individualism, definition of;
  in labor matters. 
Industrial Commission, United States,
  report of on trusts, etc.. 
Inheritance taxes,
  in United States;
  in England. 
Initiative (see also Referendum). 
Injunction (see Riots),
  origin of in Jack Cade’s Rebellion;
  early use of principle, A.D. 1327;
  justices of the peace instituted for;
  under Richard II;
  repeal of these powers given justices of the peace the very next
    year;
  the common law vindicated;
  power given to chancellor in Jack Cade’s case;
  jealousy of common law still preserved;
  given against the seduction of heiresses;
  in labor disputes;
  (see also Chancery, Equity Jurisdiction),
  government by, may bring on, military abuses;
  misuse of in America. 
Injury, to another when not criminal usually not a legal wrong;
  otherwise, if by two or more working together;
  to trade, examples of. 
Inns and ale houses, tippling at, forbidden under King James. 
Inquisition, constitutional principle against. 
Insane persons have no right to marriage. 

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