SOME MODERN TENDENCIES IN THE LAW

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

"SOME MODERN TENDENCIES IN THE LAW"

Entry/Object ID

2003.202.1.1

Description

Color: Black; Gold "Some Modern Tendencies in the Law" by Samuel Williston (New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co.,) 1929. The 167-page hardcover book, without a dustjacket, is a publication of lectures given by the Harvard Law School Dane Professor of Law and funded by a University of Virginia foundation. The cover is black with the title and author's name in gold lettering on the front. Pasted on the inside front cover and frontispiece is a letter from Williston to Benjamin Cardozo, then Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, but later a United States Supreme Court Justice. Cardozo's bookplate is found on the other side of the frontispiece. After the lectures is an index to the work, which is in good condition with some cover rubbing, dented corners, and slight page yellowing.

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Laws

Search Terms

Three-dimensional, Books, Baker, Voorhis & Co., Harvard Law School, Harvard University, William H. White Foundation, University of Virginia, Practice of law, Law--Study and teaching, Law schools--Cambridge (Mass.)

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Books