Popular Law-making: A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statuteStimson, Frederic Jesup
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Popular Law-making: A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute
Stimson, Frederic Jesup
Legislation -- United States
Co-education,
present tendency against;
universal in State colleges.
Cohabitation (_see Fornication_), made a crime in many States.
Coin (see _Money_)
Coinage, debasement of, forbidden.
Cold storage, need of legislation against.
Collective bargaining, principle of.
Color, persons of (see _Negro_).
Combinations (see _Labor, Trusts, Conspiracy_),
chapter concerning, chapter XII;
the law of;
the modern definition of;
against individuals;
intent makes the guilt;
to injure trade;
individual injuries to business;
to fix prices;
Professor Dicey quoted;
law of, in European countries;
with an evil end forbidden by Code Napoleon.
Commerce, legislation concerning, (_see Interstate Commerce,
Trade_).
Commissions and tips forbidden;
government by commission (_see Boards, Administrative Law_).
Common law,
enforcement of;
contrast with Roman law;
growth of by court decision;
effort to restore soon after the conquest;
as distinct from Roman law;
as against civil law;
how far enforced in United States;
early jealousy of chancery power;
does not apply in towns of the staple, but the law merchant;
superiority over statutes;
prevails in criminal matters;
self-regardant actions;
Massachusetts statute declaring.
Common land.
Common pleas, court not to follow king's person.
Common right shall be done to rich and poor.
Commons (_see House of Commons_).
Commonwealth of England, constitution of.
Commonwealth _vs._ Hunt, 4 Met. 111, case of cited.
Communism, definition of (_see Socialism_).
Company stores forbidden;
so, tenements;
company insurance.
Compulsory labor (_see Peonage_).
Compurgation, trial by.
Concealed weapons (_see Arms_).
Confirmation of charters.
Congress, usurpation of powers by.
Conscience, rights of (_see Religion_).
Conscription (_see Military Service_),
does not exist among English peoples.
Consent, age of,
in rape;
in marriage;
the age raised as high as twenty-one;
in criminal matters.
Conservation (_see Forest Reserves_);
of rivers, dates from statute of Henry VIII.
Conspiracy,
first statute against in 1305;
doctrine first applied to maintaining lawsuits;
next to combination between mechanics or guilds;
reason of common law doctrine of;
definition of;
determined by intent or ethical purpose;
early statutes probably declared merely the common law;
definition of in statute of 1304;
definition of as evolved in history;
finally includes intent to injure another person in his liberties as
well as results actually criminal;
reason of doctrine of;
doctrine under common law;
remedies for;
combinations necessarily attended with the use of unlawful means;
unlawful act is the combining, not any action done;
actual result unimportant;
intent the question;
punishment far more severe than for offences done under it;
always unlawful, may not amount to criminality;
principle of extended to trades unions and their by-laws;
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