Law Books

• Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters, by David D. Friedman
  • JavaScript-dependent page images at daviddfriedman.com
  • HTML of prepublication draft at daviddfriedman.com
• The Path of the Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Law -- Alabama -- Anecdotes

• The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches, by Joseph G. Baldwin
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA

Filed under: Law -- Mississippi -- Anecdotes

• The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches, by Joseph G. Baldwin
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA

Filed under: Greece -- Law -- Antiquities

• On the Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay, by Hugh E. Seebohm (PDF at McMaster)

Filed under: Law -- Canada -- Popular works

• Canada's System of Justice (electronic edition, 2005), by Canada (HTML in Canada)

Filed under: Courts -- Canada -- Popular works

• Canada's System of Justice (electronic edition, 2005), by Canada (HTML in Canada)

Filed under: Law -- Confederate States of America

• Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Montgomery, Ala. (1861), by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Acts and Resolutions of the Second Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Montgomery, Ala. (1861), by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Provisional and Permanent Constitutions of the Confederate States of America (1861), by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America (with public and private laws for the first session of First Congress, 1862), by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: Law -- Connecticut

• The True-Blue Laws of Connecticut and New Haven, and the False Blue-Laws Invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters; To Which are Added Specimens of the Laws and Judicial Proceedings of Other Colonies and Some Blue-Laws of England in the Reign of James I (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1876), ed. by J. Hammond Trumbull (HTML at Quinnpiac)

Filed under: Law -- United States -- Dictionaries

• A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union (6th edition, 1856), by John Bouvier (text files at constitution.org)

Filed under: Law -- Economic aspects

• The Coase Theorem: A Study in Economic Epistemology, by Gary North (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)

Filed under: Law -- Economic aspects -- United States

• Comparative Disadvantages? Social Regulations and the Global Economy (1997), ed. by Pietro S. Nivola (page images at Brookings Press)

Filed under: Law -- England -- History

• The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (second edition), by Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland
  • Volume I: PDF at McMaster
  • Volume II: PDF at McMaster

Filed under: Law -- European Union countries

• Treaty on European Union (aka the Maastricht Treaty) (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Law -- Spain -- Castile -- History

• Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700, by Richard L. Kagan (frame-dependent HTML at Libro)

Filed under: Law -- Georgia

• Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia Passed in Milledgeville at an Annual Session in November and December, 1863; Also Extra Session of 1864, by Georgia (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: Law -- Great Britain

• Blackstone's Commentaries, With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws of the Gederal Government of the United State and of the Commonwealth of Virginia (Philadelphia: Birch and Small, 1803), by William Blackstone, contrib. by St. George Tucker (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)
• Commentaries on the Laws of England (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1765-1769), by William Blackstone (HTML at Yale)
• The History of the Common Law of England, by Matthew Hale (text at McMaster)
• Magna Carta, ed. by Albert Beebe White and Wallace Notestein (HTML at Fordham)
• Magna Carta (exemplification of 1215, with translation) (illustrated HTML with commentary at the British Library)

Filed under: Law -- History

• Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, by Henry Sumner Maine (text files at McMaster)
• The Path of the Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Law -- Interpretation and construction

• Law and the Order of Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Robert Post (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• Legal Hermeneutics: History, Theory, and Practice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Gregory Leyh (HTML at UC Press)

Filed under: Law -- Iraq -- Babylonia

• Old Babylonian Contracts (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1922), by Edward Chiera (PDF files at ETANA)

Filed under: Law -- Methodology

• The Paradox of Self-Amendment: A Study of Law, Logic, Omnipotence, and Change, by Peter Suber (HTML at Earlham)

Filed under: Law -- Mississippi

• Journal of the State Convention, and Ordinances and Resolutions Adopted in March 1861, by Mississippi (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Proceedings of the Mississippi State Convention, Held January 7th to 26th, A. D. 1861, by Mississippi (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: Law -- North Carolina

• Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the State Convention (June, 1861), by North Carolina (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: Courts -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century

• Cases of Habeas Corpus, Decided by the Supreme Court of North Carolina, at the June Term, 1863, by North Carolina Supreme Court (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: Law -- United States -- Periodicals

• Congressional Globe, by United States Congress (full serial archives)
• Congressional Record, by United States Congress (partial serial archives)
• The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States, by United States Congress (full serial archives)
• Register of Debates in Congress, by United States Congress (full serial archives)

Filed under: Law -- Philosophy

• A Fragment on Government, by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at McMaster)
• Freedom and the Law (third edition, 1991), by Bruno Leoni (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• The Law, by Frédéric Bastiat, trans. by Dean Russell, contrib. by Walter E. Williams, Richard M. Ebeling, and Sheldon Richman (PDF at fee.org)
• The Nature of the Judicial Process, by Benjamin N. Cardozo (HTML at Virginia)
• The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1887), by Immanuel Kant, trans. by W. Hastie (HTML and PDF files at libertyfund.org)
• Philosophy of Right, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by S. W. Dyde (PDF at McMaster)
• The Spirit of Laws, by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, trans. by Thomas Nugent and J. V. Prichard (HTML and text at constitution.org)
• The Unity of the Common Law: Studies in Hegelian Jurisprudence (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), by Alan Brudner (HTML at UC Press)

Filed under: Law -- Political aspects -- California

• Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian War of 1851, Which Led to That Event, by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell (HTML at LOC)
• Gold and Sunshine: Reminiscences of Early California, by James J. Ayers (HTML at LOC)
• In the Footprints of the Padres, by Charles Warren Stoddard (HTML at LOC)
• Life and Adventures of Col. L. A. Norton, by Lewis Adelbert Norton (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of California, 1846-1861, by William T. Sherman (HTML at LOC)
• Six Months in the Gold Mines, by Edward Gould Buffum (HTML at LOC)
• Sketches of Travels in South America, Mexico and California, by Luther Melanchthon Schaeffer (HTML at LOC)