Product Description: Reprint of first edition (1896). "The following pages contain a condensed statement and exposition of the accepted canons and rules for the construction and interpretation of the written laws, whether constitutional or statutory. In accordance with the general plan of the Hornbook Series, these rules have been formulated somewhat after the manner of a code, expressed in brief black-letter paragraphs numbered consecutively throughout the book, and explained, developed, and illustrated in the text...read more

Provides definitions of basic legal terms and phrases used in various branches of law throughout English and American history.

Product Description: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Product Description: Originally published: St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1896. xi, 499, [32] pp. Reprint of the first edition. "The following pages contain a condensed statement and exposition of the accepted canons and rules for the construction and interpretation of the written laws, whether constitutional or statutory...read more

Product Description: Black, H[enry] Campbell. A Handbook of Bankruptcy Law: Embodying the Full Text of the Act of Congress of 1898, and Annotated with References to Pertinent Decisions Under Former Statutes. St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1898. viii, 326 pp...read more

Product Description: Black, Henry Campbell. A Treatise on the Law of Income Taxation under Federal and State Laws. Kansas City: Vernon Law Book Co., 1913. xlii, 403 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-237-9. Cloth. $85. In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment, which authorized income taxation, was ratified by the required three-fourths majority of states...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Features more than ten thousand legal terms and includes a dictionary guide and the complete United States Constitution.

Product Description: A comprehensive treatment of the statutes and cases of the early major developments in the law and practice of bankruptcy.

Product Description: Discusses all aspects of the law of judgments, including the nature and classification of judgments. It will providethe legal historian an excellent view of the law of judgments as it existed at the turn of the century. Commonly called "Black on Judgments."

Product Description: Reprint of the second edition. Originally published: St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing, 1910. 1314 pp. This reprint of Black's classic dictionary incorporates many new definitions and additional citations to decided cases, besides being a thorough revision of previous entries...read more

Provides definitions of basic legal terms and phrases used in various branches of law throughout English and American history

Product Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919. Excerpt: ... THE GROWTH OF EXECUTIVE POWER The most portentous development in American political and constitutional history since 1865 is the change in the relations between the executive and legislative branches of government, the one making enormous gains in the direction of influence and actual power, the other suffering a corresponding decline in prestige and in its control over the processes of government...read more