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Code civil, contenant la série des lois qui le composent, avec leurs motifs : : et suivi d'une table raisonnée des matières / / par l'auteur du Dictionnaire forestier.

Item

Identifier: KJV443.2_1803

Dates: 1803

Found in: Rare Book Collection

Collection of 13th and 14th Century English Land Grants

Collection

Identifier: MSS-009

Description These documents provide tangible evidence of the feudal system of property law prevalent in medieval and early modern Britain and Europe. They date from the end of the reign of Edward I, who was revered by later generations as the English Justinian, after the statutes of Quia Emptores (1290) and De Donis (1285) had made land freely alienable for the first time since the Norman Conquest. The first grant is for lands to be held by full copyhold tenure – basically an inheritable...

Dates: 1280 - 1304

Found in: Manuscripts

Collection of Carrington Simpson Mass Murder Trial Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-026

Description A collection of Samuel A. Spencer's legal documents from the 1840-1841 murder trial of Carrington Simpson, including Simpson's confession; Spencer's attorney notes; lists of jurors; an autobiographical account of Simpson's life, recorded by Spencer; as well as records from Spencer's earlier career.It reveals the brutal details of the 1838 murder of five members of the White Family of Greensburg, Kentucky by Carrington Simpson, his friend, Jason Bell and Bell's step-son, Pleasant...

Dates: 1826 - 1841; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1841

Found in: Manuscripts

Collection of Frederick County Maryland Attorneys Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-058

Dates: 1764-1873

Found in: Manuscripts

Council of Europe Collection

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-047

Scope and Contents

This collection comprises reports on legal services in Sweden, Germany, and the United Kingdom; responses to questionnaires on legal aid and advice; and Resolution 78 (8).

Dates: 1976 - 1978

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

Daniel Cunyngham Clymer Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-070

Content Description

The collection includes dockets of Daniel Clymer's legal activities, farm day books for the Clymer farm, calendars, and pocket almanacs with ledgers written within them. In addition, there are three letters pertaining to administration of wills and a book titled "flax book 1813." The dockets are continuous from 1769 to 1803 except for a gap between 1777 to 1781. The farm day books record the agrarian enterprises at Clymer's estate in Caernarvon Township, Berks County.

Dates: 1769-1776 1782-1803

Found in: Manuscripts

Deans - Annual Reports and Newsletters

Collection

Identifier: LCA-02-08-003

Dates: 1962 - 1984

Found in: Law Center Archives

Dr. Marion Cheek Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-022

Contents

The collection contains personal memoranda of Dr. Marion A Cheek, letters to Mrs. Sarah B. Cheek, original case documentation, ledgers, and various other correspondence.

Dates: 1878 - 1903

Found in: Manuscripts

Earl Johnson Jr. Collection

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-015

Scope and Contents The collection consists of three series: Interviews, NEJL historical materials, and Access to Justice materials. The interview collection consists of forty-nine interviews conducted by Johnson as part of his research for the book Justice And Reform: The Formative Years of the American Legal Services Program, first published in 1974 by the Russell Sage Foundation. Justice and Reform is the only comprehensive survey of the history of the Legal Services Program (LSP) within the...

Dates: 1964 - 1974

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

Edgar and Jean Cahn Papers

Collection

Identifier: NEJL-005

Dates: 1953 - 1978

Found in: National Equal Justice Library

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