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[1935 HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, CRIMINAL LAW COURSE TAUGHT BY FRANCIS BOWES SAYRE, LAW STUDENT CLASS NOTES] HARVARD LAW SCHOOL HANDWRITTEN/MANUSCRIPT COURSE NOTES for a course on Criminal Law in 1935 taught by Francis Bowes Sayre (first professor to teach labor law in a law school), cover half red leather and black pebbled leather with gilded "Law Notes" and "4-L COOP" (for Harvard Cooperative Society bookstore) on spine, 287 handwritten/manuscript pages with blue lines and one horizontal red line (full notebook) plus many tipped-in sheets of notes and additional 23 pages laid in, copious text variously in black and red inks with parts underlined in red, content variously case summaries, analysis, legal principles, proof, evidence, motivation, etc. /// NOTES: FRANCIS BOWES SAYRE, 1885-1972, graduated from Harvard in 1912, received law degree from Harvard in 1918, Harvard law faculty member 1918-1933…first person to teach a course on labor law in any law school, and also taught courses on international,… Read More

AN EXAMINATION OF THE LAW OF PERSONAL RIGHTS, To Discover the Principles of Law, As Ascertained from the Practical Rules of the Law, and Harmonized with the Nature of Social Relations, by A. J. Willard, published by Appleton, 1882, first edition, same date for copyright and on title page, green cloth cover with gilded lettering on spine, 6" x 9", 429 pages followed by 2-page listing of other law books; RARE outside of library holdings /// CONDITION: very good-plus condition, spots of light edgewear to cover, hinges firm, text block tight, relatively well-preserved copy of this antiquarian law book.

THE LAWES [LAVVES, LAWS] RESOLUTIONS OF WOMENS RIGHTS; Or, The Lavves [Laws] Provision for Women. A Methodicall Collection of such Statutes and Customes, with the Cases, Opinions, Arguments and points of Learning in the Lavv [Law], as doe properly concerne Women. Together with a compendious Table, whereby the chiefe matters in this Booke contained, may be more readily found, London; Printed by the assignment of Iohn [John] More, Esquire, and are to be sold by John Grive, at his Shop neare the Rowies in Chancery-Lane, over against the Sixe-Clerkes office, 1632 [number 3 partly lost, number 2 completely lost], cum privilegio, no author is given, but the author is generally believed to be the prominent legal figure Sir John Doderidge (1555-1628) in 1603 during the reign of James I with original manuscript or publication lost, the initials "T.E." at the end of the "Preface" are generally believed to be for Thomas Edgar, COMPLETE TEXT (except for last page 403/404) IN MANY PIECES INCLUDING SINGLE PAGES… Read More

[ANNOTATED BOOK MANUSCRIPT "THE VOLUNTARY STATE"] THE VOLUNTARY STATE by Mildred McLearn, about 240 original ribbon typed pages bound into a spring binder, 3 parts as follows: (i) original ribbon, 92 pages double-spaced, much edited in pencil typed manuscript of a stage of "The Voluntary State" book-in-progress; (ii) original ribbon, 50 pages single-spaced, a few pages covered with pencil annotations of general notes, no textual editing of a stage of "The Voluntary State" book-in-progress; (iii) essay "Voluntary Taxation – The Answer to Communism Presenting a New Political Concept," by Mildred Adams McLearn, copyrighted 1954, original ribbon, double-spaced 60 pages double-spaced, no annotations, published in the June 1958 issue of "National Review" /// AUTHOR NOTE: Mildred Adams McLearn: Mildred Adams McLearn (d. 2015 at age 102) was a long-time noted resident of Bronxville, New York, who played an active and influential part in the state Republican Party; as a student at New York University, she… Read More