Popular Law-making: A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statuteStimson, Frederic Jesup
History
Popular Law-making: A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute
Stimson, Frederic Jesup
Legislation -- United States
Extortion and Discrimination; Forestalling, Regrating, Engrossing;
The Statute of Bakers; Origin of Law of Conspiracy; The Law
of Combination; The Modern Definition; Combinations Against
Individuals; Intent Makes the Guilt; Conspiracy More Heinous
than the Act Committed; Combinations to Injure Trade; Individual
Injuries to Business; Definition of Forestalling; "The Iowa Idea";
The Statutes of Labor; First Statute of Laborers; A Fixed Wage;
Early Law of Strikes; Early Law of Trades-Unions; Labor Conditions
in Early Times; Combinations to Fix Prices; Unlawful By-Laws of
Unions; Restraint of Trade; The Eight to Labor; The Earliest
Boycott; Origin of the Injunction in Labor Cases; The Common Law
Vindicated; Compulsory Labor in England; Free Trade to Merchants;
Jealousy of Chancery Power; Guilds and Corporations; Chancery and
the Star Chamber; By-Laws Tending to Monopoly; Hours of Labor
Laws; Idlers and Vagabonds; Trusts and Labor Combinations; Riots
and Assemblies; The Statute of Elizabeth; Early Labor Regulations;
The First Poor Law; The First Complaint of Monopolies; Growth
of Monopolies; The Statute of Monopolies; The Impeachment of
Monopolists.
V. OTHER LEGISLATION IN MEDIAEVAL ENGLAND
The Statute of Mortmain; The Law Merchant; Origin of Habeas
Corpus; Early Police Regulation; Opposition to Customs Duties;
Interpretation of the Great Charter; Statute Against Chancery
Jurisdiction; Early Tariffs on Wool; The English Language Replaces
French; Freedom of Trade at Sea; Laws of the Staple; Early Food
Laws Forbidding Trusts, etc.; The Statutes of Dogger; Department
Stores and Double Trading; Freedom of Trade Restored; Jealousy of
the Roman Law; Laws Against Scotch, Welsh, and Irish; Injunctions
Issued Against Seduction; The First Statute of Limitations;
Personal Government Under Henry VIII; Laws Against Middlemen;
Final Definitions of Forestalling, Regrating, Engrossing; The
First Poor Law and Forestry Law; The First Trading Corporations;
The Heresy Statutes; James I, Legislation Against Sins; Cromwell's
Legislation; The First Business Corporation; Corporations Invented
to Gain Monopoly; Growth of the Trade Guilds; Veterans' Preference
Legislation.
VI. AMERICAN LEGISLATION IN GENERAL.
Early Increase of State Legislation; The State Constitutions; When
Statutes Should Be Unconstitutional; Effect of the Initiative and
Referendum; The True Value of Precedent.
VII. AMERICAN LEGISLATION ON PROPERTY RIGHTS
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