Ordinances

Ordinances
Author: Mauritius
Publisher:
Total Pages: 976
Release: 1905
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The Corporate Records Handbook

The Corporate Records Handbook
Author: Anthony Mancuso
Publisher: NOLO
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1413302017

Should be a part of any serious business library -- and any corporate library.- Bookwatch - This practical guide gives step-by-step instructions plus the legal forms to be filled out and filed to keep corporate status. - Orange County Register

Prestatehood Legal Materials

Prestatehood Legal Materials
Author: Michael Chiorazzi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1539
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136766022

Explore the controversial legal history of the formation of the United States Prestatehood Legal Materials is your one-stop guide to the history and development of law in the U.S. and the change from territory to statehood. Unprecedented in its coverage of territorial government, this book identifies a wide range of available resources from each state to reveal the underlying legal principles that helped form the United States. In this unique publication, a state expert compiles each chapter using his or her own style, culminating in a diverse sourcebook that is interesting as well as informative. In Prestatehood Legal Materials, you will find bibliographies, references, and discussion on a varied list of source materials, including: state codes drafted by Congress county, state, and national archives journals and digests state and federal reports, citations, surveys, and studies books, manuscripts, papers, speeches, and theses town and city records and documents Web sites to help your search for more information and more Prestatehood Legal Materials provides you with brief overviews of state histories from colonization to acceptance into the United States. In this book, you will see how foreign countries controlled the laws of these territories and how these states eventually broke away to govern themselves. The text also covers the legal issues with Native Americans, inter-state and the Mexico and Canadian borders, and the development of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government. This guide focuses on materials that are readily available to historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and researchers. Resources that assist in locating not-so-easily accessible materials are also covered. Special sections focus on the legal resources of colonial New York City and Washington, DC—which is still technically in its prestatehood stage. Due to the enormity of this project, the editor of Prestatehood Legal Materials created a Web page where updates, corrections, additions and more will be posted.