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• 1. Introduction
• 2. A politer peace
• 3. Sensibility
• 4. Civility
• 5. Credibility
• 6. Cacophony
• 7. Respectability
• Bibliography
• Index.
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This book, the first comprehensive study of criminal speech in eighteenth-century New England, traces how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in Massachusetts helped to establish and legitimate a social and cultural regime of politeness. Analyzing provincial statutes and hundreds of criminal prosecutions, Kristin A. Olbertson argues that colonists transformed their understanding of speech offenses, from fundamentally ungodly to primarily impolite. As white male gentility emerged as the pre-eminent model of authority, records of criminal prosecution and punishment show a distinct cadre of politely pious men defining themselves largely in contrast to the vulgar, the impious, and the unmanly. "Law, " as manifested in statutes as well as in local courts and communities, promoted and legitimized a particular, polite vision of the king's peace and helped effectuate the British Empire. In this unique and fascinating work, Olbertson reveals how ordinary people interacted with and shaped legal institutions.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. A politer peace
• 3. Sensibility
• 4. Civility
• 5. Credibility
• 6. Cacophony
• 7. Respectability
• Bibliography
• Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book, the first comprehensive study of criminal speech in eighteenth-century New England, traces how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in Massachusetts helped to establish and legitimate a social and cultural regime of politeness. Analyzing provincial statutes and hundreds of criminal prosecutions, Kristin A. Olbertson argues that colonists transformed their understanding of speech offenses, from fundamentally ungodly to primarily impolite. As white male gentility emerged as the pre-eminent model of authority, records of criminal prosecution and punishment show a distinct cadre of politely pious men defining themselves largely in contrast to the vulgar, the impious, and the unmanly. "Law, " as manifested in statutes as well as in local courts and communities, promoted and legitimized a particular, polite vision of the king's peace and helped effectuate the British Empire. In this unique and fascinating work, Olbertson reveals how ordinary people interacted with and shaped legal institutions.
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• The research process and legal analysis
• Judicial opinions
• Constitutions, statutes, & court Rules
• Legislative history
• Administrative law
• Secondary sources
• Research strategies
• Legal citation

"Michigan Legal Research is a concise, yet thorough, guide to conducting legal research in Michigan. Importantly, it also includes references to federal legal resources. In addition to updating all sources discussed, this edition, more so than previous editions, focuses on free legal resources, including current commercial and government sources. For the free online sources, this edition includes directions on how to navigate the website to make it easy for the reader to find the relevant information. Where applicable, references to new and established subscription-based resources are juxtaposed against those resources that are available for free. The goal is to help the reader make an informed decision regarding when to use a fee-based service as opposed to a free legal resource. This edition continues to draw upon the authors' years of experience teaching legal writing and research by providing the tools for conducting efficient and effective legal research, as well as discussing the interplay between legal research and legal analysis"-- Provided by publisher

• The legal research process
• Missouri and federal authority
• Researching with online resources
• Researching constitutions, statutes, and legislation
• Researching judicial opinions
• Researching administrative law
• Researching secondary sources
• Research strategies and organizing research

"Missouri Legal Research was designed for teaching legal research to first-year law students, paralegals, and undergraduate students researching Missouri law. Missouri practitioners and others who need to be familiar with Missouri resources will also want this book in their library. Complex ideas and research processes are presented in a straightforward manner. Outlines of the research process and short excerpts from Missouri and federal resources make the book easy to use. Web addresses and examples point researchers to the many sources for finding free Missouri and federal legal material online"-- Provided by publisher

*SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021* 'The best and most enjoyable kind of history writing ... thought-provoking and absorbing' Hilary Mantel 'One of those rare history books that stays with you and haunts you long after you have turned the last page. Superb' Sunday Times The dark, compelling history of a colonial witch-hunt, from the author of Witchfinders In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics, and the community becomes tangled in a web of spite, distrust and denunciation. The finger of suspicion falls on a young couple struggling to make a home and feed their children: Hugh Parsons the irascible brickmaker and his troubled wife, Mary. It will be their downfall. The Ruin of All Witches tells the dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation. These were the turbulent beginnings of colonial America, when English settlers' dreams of love and liberty, of founding a 'city on a hill', gave way to paranoia and terror, enmity and rage. Drawing on uniquely rich, previously neglected source material, Malcolm Gaskill brings to life a New World existence steeped in the divine and the diabolic, in curses and enchantments, and precariously balanced between life and death. Through the gripping micro-history of a family tragedy, we glimpse an entire society caught in agonized transition between supernatural obsessions and the age of enlightenment. We see, in short, the birth of the modern world. 'Haunting, revelatory and superbly written - a strong contender for the best history book of 2021' Irish Independent 'A great story, exquisitely told. This book is history at its illuminative best' The Times 'As compelling as a campfire story ... Gaskill brings this sinister past vividly to life' Erica Wagner, Financial Times.
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• Introduction: The child as witch.-
• 1. 'Bitch witches': Reading 'affliction' in the Salem witch narratives.-
• 2. The case of Dorcas Good: accuser and accused.-
• 3. Childhood, witchcraft, and absence.-
• 4. Motherhood and witchcraft in Salem.-
• 5. Ann's Story.-
• 6. Fictionalising Salem: The reconstructed child.-
• 7. Conclusion: Salem in the twenty first century.
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This book discusses the role of children in the Salem witch trials through a close reading of the many and varied narratives of the trials, including court records, contemporary and historical documents, fiction, drama, and poetry. Taking a critical theory approach to explore both what we might understand as a child in 1692 New England and to consider our adult investment in reading the child, Kristina West explores narratives of the afflicted girls and the many accused children whom are often absent or overlooked in histories, and considers how the trial structure is continually repeated in attempts to establish the respective guilt and innocence of these and other groups. This book also analyses later manuscripts and fictional rewritings of the trials to question the basis on which assumptions about the child in history are made, and to consider why such narratives of Salem's children are still relevant now.
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• We the people, the courthouse, and the constitution
• Only people were slaves
• Judicial review comes to Mississippi
• Mississippi bank wars
• Agricultural liens and related policy products of police power
• Advent of the regulatory state in Mississippi
• The police power of the state moves to the Piney Woods
• The coming of the common law in Mississippi
• The Governor and the Gold Coast
• Balancing industry with the constitution.

As a law student at Ole Miss, I was easily bored with the study of constitutional law. However, I did not have the benefit of studying under a gifted storyteller like Jimmy Robertson (he taught me federal procedure). This collection is a delightful romp through the highs and lows of Mississippi's struggle to govern itself. -John Grisham James L. Robertson focuses on folk encountering their constitutions and laws, in their courthouses and country stores, and in their daily lives, animating otherwise dry and inaccessible parchments. Robertson begins at statehood and continues through war and depression, well into the 1940s. He tells of slaves petitioning for freedom, populist sentiments fueling abnegation of the rule of law, the state's many schemes for enticing Yankee capital to lift a people from poverty, and its sometimes tragic, always colorful romance with whiskey after the demise of national Prohibition. Each story is sprinkled with fascinating but heretofore unearthed facts and circumstances. Robertson delves into the prejudices and practices of the times, local landscapes, and daily life and its dependence on our social compact. He offers the unique perspective of a judge, lawyer, scholar, and history buff, each role having tempered the lessons of the others. He focuses on a people, enriching encounters most know little about. Tales of understanding and humanity covering 130 years of heroes, rascals, and ordinary folk-with a bundle of engaging surprises-leave the reader pretty sure there's nothing quite like Mississippi history told by a sage observer.
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• Introduction
• A refractory and turbulent spirit : origins of Mississippi law
• Prescribed spheres : the legal path of slavery in Mississippi
• Flush times, Hard times : law, Jacksonism, and a cotton economy
• Legal legacies of war and reconstruction
• Thresholds of change : Mississippi law in the progressive and New Deal
• Moving past the crossroads : law and Mississippi's modern age.

In A Legal History of Mississippi: Race, Class, and the Struggle for Opportunity, legal scholar Joseph A. Ranney surveys the evolution of Mississippi's legal system and analyzes the ways in which that system has changed during the state's first two hundred years. Through close research, qualitative analysis, published court decisions, statutes, and law review articles, along with unusual secondary sources including nineteenth-century political and legal journals and journals of state constitutional conventions, Ranney indicates how Mississippi law has both shaped and reflected the state's character and, to a certain extent, how Mississippi's legal evolution compares with that of other states. Ranney examines the interaction of Mississippi law and society during key periods of change including the colonial and territorial eras and the early years of statehood when the legal foundations were laid; the evolution of slavery and slave law in Mississippi; the state's antebellum role as a leader of Jacksonian legal reform; the unfolding of the response to emancipation and wartime devastation during Reconstruction and the early Jim Crow era; Mississippi's legal evolution during the Progressive Era and its legal response to the crisis of the Great Depression; and the legal response to the civil rights revolution of the mid-twentieth century and the cultural revolutions of the late twentieth century. Histories of the law in other states are starting to appear, but there is none for Mississippi. Ranney fills that gap to help us better understand the state as it enters its third century.
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• A brief introduction to recreational and adult-use marihuana in Michigan and other states : progress at the federal level / Bernard A. Jocuns
• Introduction & brief history of marihuana legislation in Michigan, including current law / Bernard A. Jocuns
• Michigan regulation and taxation of adult use marihuana : the MRTMA act / Bernard A. Jocuns
• Michigan marihuana facilities and licensing : the MMFLA act / Bernard A. Jocuns
• The Michigan Marihuana Tracking Act : the MTA act / Bernard A. Jocuns
• Michigan marijuana criminal law and penalties / Daniel W. Grow
• Federal controlled substances laws and marijuana / Andres R. Guevara
• Driving under the influence : an overview of Michigan' marijuana-related driving offenses / Mary Chartier
• Laboratory testing overview of THC / Jeremy Brehmer
• Are THC concentrations appropriate for presuming psychomotor impairment? / Paul Armentano
• Marijuana as a federal controlled substance / Jacey L. Liu
• Under the influence of marijuana / John P. Bederka, Jr. and Warren Cooper
• Pharmacology of marijuana / James T. O'Donnell and James J. O'Donell.

• Introduction
• The courts of the Mississippi territory, 1798-1817
• The Mississippi district court and its judges, 1818-1838
• States' rights and secession, 1839-1861
• War and congressional reconstruction, 1861-1870
• Klan violence and democratic domination, 1870-1891
• "$100 and thirty days": roping blind tigers, 1891-1918
• Enforcing the national prohibition act, 1919-1929
• A second federal judge for Mississippi, 1929-1949
• Defiant democrats, 1950-1961
• The road to compliance, 1961-1983
• The US courts of Mississippi
• Appendix one. US magistrate judges and bankcruptcy judges of Mississippi
• Appendix two. US attorneys of Mississippi
• Appendix three. US marshals of Mississippi
• Appendix four. Chief US probation officers of Mississippi.

This resource produces the first comprehensive history of the state's federal courts from the inception of the Mississippi Territory to the late twentieth century. Using archival material and legal documents, David M. Hargrove untangles the state's complex legal history, which includes slavery and secession, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Jim Crow and civil rights. In this important overview of the United States courts in Mississippi, Hargrove surveys the state's federal judiciary as it rules on key issues in Mississippi's past. He examines the court as it mediates conflict between regional and national agendas as well as protects constitutional rights of the state's African American citizens during the Reconstruction and civil rights eras. Hargrove traces how political activities of the state's federal judges affected public perceptions of an independent judiciary. Growing demands for federal judicial and law enforcement infrastructure, he notes, called for courthouses that remain iconic presences in the state's largest cities. Hargrove presents detailed judicial biographies of judges who shaped Mississippi's federal bench. Commissioned by the state's federal judiciary to write the book, he offers balanced perspectives on jurists whose reputations have suffered in hindsight, while illuminating the achievements of those who have received little public recognition.
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• A case study in law and science
• The roots of Massachusetts witchcraft
• The views of scientists
• The law and nature of Massachusetts witchcraft
• Maleficium and cause of death
• Science and the identification of witches : female experts
• The defense of insanity
• The law-science relationship then and now

Originally published in 1968. Far from being an isolated outburst of community insanity or hysteria, the Massachusetts witchcraft trials were an accurate reflection of the scientific ethos of the seventeenth century. Witches were seldom hanged without supporting medical evidence. Professor Fox clarifies this use of scientific knowledge by examining the Scientific Revolution's impact on the witchcraft trials. He suggests that much of the scientific ineptitude and lack of sophistication that characterized the witchcraft cases is still present in our modern system of justice. In the historical context of seventeenth-century witch hunts and in an effort to stimulate those who must design and operate a just jurisprudence today, Fox asks what the proper legal role of medical science-especially psychiatry-should be in any society. The legal system of seventeenth-century Massachusetts was weakened by an uncritical reliance on scientific judgments, and the scientific assumptions upon which the colonial conception of witchcraft was based reinforced these doubtful judgments. Fox explores these assumptions, discusses the actual participation of scientists in the investigations, and indicates the importance of scientific attitudes in the trials. Disease theory, psychopathology, and autopsy procedures, he finds, all had their place in the identification of witches. The book presents a unique multidisciplinary investigation into the place of science in the life of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century. There, as in twentieth-century America, citizens were confronted with the necessity of accommodating both the rules of law and the facts of science to their system of justice.
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• The murder of Courtney Smith
• The murder of Christine Jackson
• Investigating the dead
• At the hands of persons unknown
• Setting the stage for the cadaver king
• Rise of a fiefdom
• The West phenomenon
• Entrenchment
• The trial of Levon Brooks
• Keep that woman under control
• Vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction
• Prayers for relief
• The unraveling
• Redemption and insurrection
• No reckoning.

This is a tale of two tragedies. At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies per year, five times more than is recommended, all at night, in the basement of a local morgue and flower shop. Autopsy reports claimed organs had been observed and weighed when, in reality, they had been surgically removed from the body years before. But Hayne was the only game in town. He also often brought in local dentist and self-styled "bite mark specialist" Dr. Michael West, who would discover marks on victim's bodies, at times invisible to the naked eye, and then match those marks to law enforcement's lead suspect. This leads to the second tragic tale: that of Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks, two black men each convicted in separate cases of the brutal rape and murder of young girls. Dr. Hayne's autopsy and Dr. West's bite mark matching formed the bases for the convictions. Combined the two men served over 30 years in Mississippi's notorious penitentiary - Parchman Farm - before being exonerated in 2008. Brooks' and Brewer's wrongful convictions lie at the intersection of both the most pressing problem facing this country's criminal justice system - structural injustice built on the historic foundation of race and class as well as with the much more contemporary but equally egregious problem of invalid forensic science. The old problem is inextricably bound up with and exacerbates the new. In Dr. Death and the Country Dentist, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington write a true story of Southern gothic horror--of two innocent men wrongly convicted of vicious crimes and the legally condoned failures that allowed it to happen. Balko and Carrington will shine a light on the institutional and professional failures that allowed this tragic, astonishing story to happen, identify where it may have happened elsewhere, and show how to prevent it from happening again.
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• Prologue
• Introduction and overview
• The bourbon elites
• Opposition to the bourbons
• Calling the convention
• The convention debates the franchise
• The convention adopts the understanding clause
• The convention considers reform agendas
• The convention exposes class divisions
• Defending the new constitution in congress
• Defending the new constitution in the federal courts
• Conclusion.

In 1890, Mississippi called a convention to rewrite its constitution. That convention became the singular event that marked the state's transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth and set the path for the state for decades to come. The primary purpose of the convention was to disfranchise African American voters as well as some poor whites. The result was a document that transformed the state for the next century. In Sowing the Wind, Dorothy Overstreet Pratt traces the decision to call that convention, examines the delegates' decisions, and analyzes the impact of their new constitution. Pratt argues the constitution produced a new social structure, which pivoted the state's culture from a class-based system to one centered upon race. Though state leaders had not anticipated this change, they were savvy in their manipulation of the issues. The new constitution effectively filled the goal of disfranchisement. Moreover, unlike the constitutions of many other southern states, it held up against attack for over seventy years. It also hindered the state socially and economically well into the twentieth century.
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• Introduction to legal research
• Legal research as a process
• Secondary sources
• Judicial opinions
• Case law research
• Statutes
• Legislative process and legislative history
• Administrative law
• Constitutions
• Law of evidence and rules of court, including rules of professional conduct
• Appendix A: Basics of citation
• Appendix B: Basics of full-text searching on Lexis Advance, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law.

"[This book] has been extensively revised to outline a process of effective and efficient legal research that may incorporate print resources, free Internet resources, and commercial platforms. Introductory chapters discuss the importance of legal research in legal problem solving, strategies for locating relevant primary and secondary authority, and ways to evaluate research findings. Following these introductory chapters, [the author] discusses legal secondary sources, and then addresses Massachusetts primary sources and techniques for using them with chapters on judicial opinions, statutes, administrative law, constitutions, and rules of court. An additional chapter discusses the legislative process. The book includes concise descriptions of federal sources and appendixes on full-text searching and citation."-- Provided by publisher.

• Volume I. Choice of entity and incorporation / Arthur B. Page, Charles R. Platt
• Filing and reporting requirements / Amy R. Segal
• Qualifying for tax exemption / Elka T. Sachs
• Preparing IRS forms 1023, 1023EZ, and 1024 / Susan M. (Sandy) Tarrant, Anita S. Lichtblau
• Duties and liabilities of directors and officers / Sharon C. Lincoln
• Limiting liability and risk of directors and officers / Frederic J. Marx
• Board function and composition: practical considerations / Nancy B. Gardiner
• Employment law and employee benefits / Frederick L. Sullivan, Layla G. Taylor
• Regulation of public charities and fundraising / Richard A. Sugarman
• Limitations on lobbying and political activities / Oliver F. Ames, Renat V. Lumpau
• Unrelated business income / Charles Fayerweather
• Volume II. Property tax exemptions / Tad Heuer, Sandra Shapiro
• Tax-exempt financing / David R. Sullivan
• Reorganizations and dissolutions / Jack A. Eiferman
• Special issues for health-care nonprofits / Kenneth R. Appleby, Dianne J. Bourque, Ellen L. Janos, M. Daria Niewenhous, Donald W. Schroeder, Bruce D. Sokler, Stephen M. Weiner
• Administering a private foundation / Sarah T. Connolly, Annette K. Eaton
• Management of endowment and institutional funds / Christopnher A. Klem, Carolyn O. Ward
• Nonprofits in trouble : receiverships and bankruptcy / Jack A. Eiferman
• Conversion from nonprofit to for-profit status / Charles R. Buck, Christopher M. Jedrey, Edward G. Zacharias.

• The research process and legal analysis
• Judicial opinions
• Enacted law
• Legislative history
• Administrative law
• Secondary sources
• Research strategies
• Legal citation.

"In addition to updating all sources discussed, this edition...focuses on free legal resources, including current commercial and government sources. For the free online sources, this edition includes directions on how to navigate the website to make it easy for the reader to find the relevant information. Where applicable, references to new and established subscription-based resources are juxtaposed against those resources that are available for free. The goal is to help the reader make an informed decision regarding when to use a fee-based service as opposed to a free legal resource. This edition continues to draw upon the authors' years of experience teaching legal writing and research by providing the tools for conducting efficient and effective legal research, as well as discussing the interplay between legal research and legal analysis."-- Provided by publisher.

Until recently, many of Missouri's legal records were inaccessible and the existence of many influential, historic cases was unknown. The ten essays in this volume showcase Missouri as both maker and microcosm of American history. Some of the topics are famous: Dred Scott's slave freedom suit, Virginia Minor's women's suffrage case, Curt Flood's suit against professional baseball, and the Nancy Cruzan "right to die" case. Other essays cover court cases concerning the uneasy incorporation of ethnic and cultural populations into the United States; political loyalty tests during the Civil War; the alleviation of cruelty to poor and criminally institutionalized children; the barring of women to serve on juries decades after they could vote; and the creation of the "Missouri Court Plan, " a national model for judicial selection.
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• Introduction: Searching for rights in Missouri history / Kenneth H. Winn
• Testing the limits of American justice : Indian trials in nineteenth-century Missouri / William E. Foley
• The frown of fortune : George Sibley, breach of promise, and Anglo-Francophone conflict on the Missouri frontier / Kenneth H. Winn
• The politics of slavery and Missouri's first elected Supreme Court : Dred Scott v. Emerson / Paul Finkelman
• The Judicial Ouster Ordinance of 1865 and radical reconstruction in Missouri / Dennis W. Belcher
• Disfranchised and degraded : Virginia L. Minor and the constitutional case for women's suffrage / Bonnie Stepenoff
• Missouri's long road to juvenile justice / Douglas E. Abrams
• The living example : Laurence M. Hyde and the Missouri nonpartisan court plan / Kenneth H. Winn
• Constitutional mollycoddling : how women won the right to serve as jurors in Missouri (but only if they wanted to) / Karen Anderson Winn
• Shaking the shackles : Curt Flood's challenge to baseball's reserve clause / James R. Devine
• In the midst of all such excitement : the Nancy Cruzan case / Edward "Chip" Robertson, Jr.

Until recently, many of Missouri's legal records were inaccessible and the existence of many influential, historic cases was unknown. The ten essays in this volume showcase Missouri as both maker and microcosm of American history. Some of the topics are famous: Dred Scott's slave freedom suit, Virginia Minor's women's suffrage case, Curt Flood's suit against professional baseball, and the Nancy Cruzan "right to die" case. Other essays cover court cases concerning the uneasy incorporation of ethnic and cultural populations into the United States; political loyalty tests during the Civil War; the alleviation of cruelty to poor and criminally institutionalized children; the barring of women to serve on juries decades after they could vote; and the creation of the "Missouri Court Plan, " a national model for judicial selection.
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