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Preface to the Third Edition | |
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Prologue | |
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The Beginnings: American Law in the Colonial Period | |
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The Skeleton of Colonial Law: The Courts | |
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The Colonial Judicial System in the Eighteenth Century | |
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Civil Procedure | |
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Land Law | |
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Succession at Death | |
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Criminal Law | |
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Government, Law, and the Economy | |
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Commerce and Labor | |
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Slavery | |
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The Poor Laws | |
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Statute and Common Law in the Colonial Period | |
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The Legal Profession | |
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The Literature of the Law | |
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From the Revolution to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: 1776-1850 | |
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The Republic of Bees | |
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Revolutionary Ardor | |
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Constitutions: Federal and State | |
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The Judges | |
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The Organization of Courts | |
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Civil Procedure | |
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The Law of Evidence | |
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Outposts of the Law: The Frontier and the Civil Law Fringe | |
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The Civil Law Fringe | |
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Law and the Economy: 1776-1850 | |
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Laissez-Faire and Its Limits | |
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The Business Corporation | |
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The Law of Personal Status: Wives, Paupers, and Slaves | |
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Marriage and Divorce | |
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Family Property | |
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Adoption | |
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Poor Laws and Social Welfare | |
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Slavery and African Americans | |
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An American Law of Property | |
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The Land: A National Treasure | |
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The Law of Private Land | |
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Boom and Bust: The Law of Mortgages | |
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Succession: Wills and Trusts | |
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Intellectual Property: Patents and Copyrights | |
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The Law of Commerce and Trade | |
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A Federal Question: Admiralty and General Commerce | |
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Sale of Goods | |
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Bankruptcy and Insolvency | |
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Contract | |
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Crime and Punishment: And a Footnote on Tort | |
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Penal Law and Penal Reform | |
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The Substantive Law of Crimes | |
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The Crime of Punishment: The American Prison | |
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A Footnote on Tort | |
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The Bar and Its Works | |
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The Bar | |
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Organization of the Bar | |
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Legal Education | |
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The Literature of the Law | |
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American Law to the Close of the Nineteenth Century | |
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Blood and Gold: Some Main Themes in the Law in the Last Half of the Nineteenth Century | |
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The New Era | |
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Organic Law | |
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State Constitutions | |
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The West | |
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Judges and Courts: 1850-1900 | |
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The Judges | |
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Judicial Organization | |
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Procedure and Practice: An Age of Reform | |
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Mr. Field's Code | |
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Appellate Courts | |
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Codification and Reform | |
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The Land and Other Property | |
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The Transformation of Land Law | |
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The Public Land | |
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Property Law and the Dynasts | |
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Landlord and Tenant | |
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Mortgages | |
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The Decline of Dower | |
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A Tangle of Titles | |
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Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks | |
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Administrative Law and Regulation of Business | |
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The Coming of the Bureaucrats | |
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Regulating the Infrastructure: Banks, Insurance, and Railroads | |
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Occupational Licensing: And the Pull of Public Health | |
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The Great Antitrust Act | |
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Torts | |
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The Underdogs: 1850-1900 | |
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The Dependent Poor | |
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Family Law and the Status of Women | |
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The Races | |
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The Law of Corporations | |
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Corporation Law: Freedoms and Restraints | |
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A Discordant Addendum: The Municipal Corporation | |
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Commerce, Labor, and Taxation | |
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Contract | |
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Negotiable Instruments | |
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The Law of Sales | |
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The Usury Laws | |
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Insurance | |
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Bankruptcy | |
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Admiralty | |
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Labor and Law | |
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Federal Taxation | |
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State and Local Tax | |
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Death Taxes | |
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Crime and Punishment | |
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The Many Faces of Criminal Law | |
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The Statute Law of Crimes | |
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Crime, Crime Rates, Insanity, the Guilty Mind | |
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Punishment and Correction | |
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Victimless Crimes | |
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The Legal Profession: The Training and Literature of Law | |
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The Rise of the Law School | |
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The Literature of the Law | |
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Legal Periodicals and Casebooks | |
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The Legal Profession: At Work | |
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The Nimble Profession | |
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Organization of the Bar | |
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Admission to the Bar | |
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The Twentieth Century | |
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Leviathan Comes of Age | |
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Center and Periphery | |
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The Growth of the Law | |
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The Liability Explosion: Workers' Compensation | |
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More Explosions: Tort Law | |
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The Constitution, Rights, and Civil Liberties in the Twentieth Century | |
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First Nations | |
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Asian Americans | |
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Hispanics | |
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The Revolt of Otherness | |
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Freedom of Speech | |
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Religion and the Law | |
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Internal Legal Culture in the Twentieth Century: Lawyers, Judges, and Law Books | |
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Legal Ethics | |
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The Organized Bar | |
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Legal Education | |
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Legal Literature | |
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The Twentieth Century Bench | |
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Regulation, Welfare, and the Rise of Environmental Law | |
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Land Use | |
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Environment Law and the Environmental Movement | |
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Intellectual Property | |
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Regulation of Business | |
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Business Law and the Law of Business | |
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Crime and Punishment in the Twentieth Century | |
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Decriminalizing Sex and Vice | |
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Defendants' Rights | |
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The Death Penalty | |
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Crime Waves and the National Response | |
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Family Law in the Twentieth Century | |
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Epilogue | |
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A Final Word | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Index | |