Institutes of American Law (2 Volume Set)

Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1880. A compendium of American law by a Philadelphia jurist best known for his Law Dictionary (1839). Extensively notated and indexed. Divided into six books (law and government, persons, things, wrongs, remedies, equity), and based on Pothier's system, he covers a wide range of topics such as the nature of law and sovereignty, the U.S. government, corporations, civil rights, domestic issues, duties and rights of master and servant, paternity, title by original acquisition and by war, patents, contracts, sales, bailments, bills of exchange and promissory notes, estates, trusts, property, libel, remedies, courts, evidence, and equity.