Search Results: Titles starting with R from The Lawbook Exchange Ltd

2015. [Taxation]. 2015 RIA Federal Tax Handbook. Checkpoint Thomson Reuters/Tax & Accounting. 835 pp. 1 Volume. Softbound. As new, excellent condition. Publisher's Price USD 95.75 Special $19.95 * Provides quick and easy access to critical tax questions, the RIA Federal Tax Handbook offers comprehensive, insightful guidance on federal tax law, including the latest regulations, rulings, and revenue procedures as well as precise explanations about changes that could impact your business or your clients. Provides specific guidance on key tax topics, including individual, trust, partnership and corporate taxation, deductions, credits, capital gains, IRAs, SIMPLE and pension plans, education incentives, passive activity losses, employee benefits, estate and gift taxes, and more. And, you'll be able to quickly navigate any tax questions that arise with: Detailed coverage of the latest tax legislation; A tax calendar; Income tax rates, current estate, gift and excise tax rates, and Social Security tax… Read More

1832. An Authority on the Criminal Law of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Lauria, Francesco [1769-1818]. Raccolta di Aringhe Penali. Naples: Stabilimento Letterario-Tipografico dell'Ateneo, 1832. Five volumes. Volume I has portrait frontispiece. Octavo (7-1/2" x 4-3/4"). Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt titles and fillets to spines. Light rubbing to extremities, corners lightly bumped. A few contemporary annotations to the title page of Volume I, interiors otherwise clean. $500. * Only edition. A title in the series Opere Diverse di Francesco Lauria. With a biography of the author, a distinguished professor at the University of Naples. This is a collection of forensic orations and writings on criminal and criminal cases. OCLC locates 1 copy in North America (At UC-Berkeley Law School).

1995. Wasby, Stephen L. Race Relations Litigation in an Age of Complexity. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, [1995]. xxii, 421 pp. Hardcover. Cloth. New. $5.

1997. ISBN 10: 0889202893; ISBN 13: 9780889202894. Walker, James W. St. G. Race, Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada: Historical Case Studies. The Osgoode Society, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1997. Cloth hardcover, fine, as new, in a fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $10. * Four cases in which the legal issue was "race" - that of a Chinese restaurant owner who was fined for employing a white woman; a black man who was refused service in a bar; a Jew who wanted to buy a cottage but was prevented by the property owners' association; and a Trinidadian of East Indian descent who was acceptable to the Canadian army but was rejected for immigration on grounds of "race" - drawn from the period between 1914 and 1955, are intimately examined to explore the role of the Supreme Court of Canada and the law in the racialization of Canadian society. With painstaking research into contemporary attitudes and practices, Walker demonstrates that Supreme Court Justices were expressing the prevailing "common… Read More

2004. ISBN-13: 9781584773184; ISBN-10: 1584773189. Hoffman, Frederick L. Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro. New York: Published for the American Economic Association by the Macmillan Company, 1896. (Publications of the American Economic Association. Vol. XI. Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Pages 1-329. August, 1896.) vii (i-vii new Introduction), x, 329 pp. With a new introduction by Paul Finkelman. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584773184; ISBN-10: 1584773189. Hardcover. New. $49.95 This analytical study provides a fascinating examination of the circumstances of African-Americans during the first thirty years following the abolition of slavery and insights into the biases of nineteenth-century social science. Its chapters consider population factors, vital statistics, including anthropometry, race amalgamation and social and economic conditions. Hoffman, the statistician of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, based his book on research materials collected in his… Read More

2001. Darling, Marsha J. Tyson. Race, Voting, Redistricting, and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Fifteenth Amendment. Volume 1: The 14th and 15th Amendments and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Volume 2: Enforcing and Challenging the Voting rights Act of 1965. Volume 3: Alternate Redistricting, Registering, and Voting Systems. New York: Routledge, 2001. 3 Volumes. Illustrations. Hardcover. Fine. $150.

2001. Darling, Marsha J. Tyson. Race, Voting, Redistricting, and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Fifteenth Amendment. Volume 1: The 14th and 15th Amendments and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Volume 2: Enforcing and Challenging the Voting rights Act of 1965. Volume 3: Alternate Redistricting, Registering, and Voting Systems. New York: Routledge, 2001. 3 Volumes. Illustrations. Hardcover. Fine. $150.

2001. Darling, Marsha J. Tyson. Race, Voting, Redistricting and the Constitution. Sources and Explorations on the Fifteenth Amendment. Volume 1: The 14th and 15th Amendments and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Volume 2: Enforcing and Challenging the Voting rights Act of 1965. Volume 3: Alternate Redistricting, Registering, and Voting Systems. New York: Routledge, 2001. 3 Volumes. Illustrations. Hardcover. Fine. $150.

2010. Walker, Barrington. Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [2010]. xii, 256 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $45.

1938. C.C. Dill, By National Law Book Co., 1938. C.C. Dill, By National Law Book Co., 1938. Dill, Clarence C. Radio Law: Practice and Procedure. Washington, DC: Published for C.C. Dill, By National Law Book Company, [1938]. [ii], x, 353 pp. Original cloth, moderate shelfwear, location label to spine, library stamps to edges and endleaves, "Law Library" stamped in gilt to center of rear board, moderate toning to interior. $50.

1992. ISBN-13: 9780963010636; ISBN-10: 0963010638. McNamara, M. Frances. Ragbag of Legal Quotations. Albany: Matthew Bender & Company, 1960. xi, 334 pp. Reprinted 1992 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9780963010636; ISBN-10: 0963010638. Hardcover. $25. * One of the best collections of legal quotations ever. McNamara's attractive and well-indexed volume provides over 2,000 quotations arranged under nearly 300 subject headings, which are further indexed by author and by words and phrases. Explanatory notes clarify the meaning of some well-known, but misunderstood quotations.

2001. Ely, James W., Jr. Railroads and American Law. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, [2001]. xii, 376 pp. Cloth in dust jacket. New. $39.95. * At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it accelerated national expansion and transformed our legal system. Ely offers the first comprehensive treatment of this subject and shows that the railroad and American law had a profound influence on each other.

1855. Rare British Novella About A Railway Accident Featuring a Trial for Negligence [Neale, John Mason]. The Railway Accident: A Tale. London: John Henry & Jas. Parker, [c. 1855]. 103 pp. Woodcut frontispiece. [Bound with three other titles.] Octavo (6-1/2" x 4"). Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands and lettering piece to spine. Some rubbing to extremities, corners bumped and somewhat worn and corners rubbed. Light toning, light browning to final title. $650. * The plot of The Railway Accident concerns a railroad worker who is falsely accused of having caused the accident; the final quarter of the novella is a "verbatim" account of the courtroom proceedings in which he is acquitted by "the almost special interference of Providence." This is a rare item. We located 3 copies in the UK and 1 copy in North America (at the University of Missouri). The other works in this volume are Emily Judson's Records of Alderbrook, Or Fanny Forester's Village Sketches (London, 1854) and… Read More

1856. A Jaundiced Look at the American Legal System from 1856 Fenner, Ball. Raising the Veil; Or, Scenes in the Courts. Embellished with Portraits of Police, Court Officers, &c. Boston: James French & Company, 1856. xii, [13]-288 pp. Woodcut frontispiece with tissue guard. Plates. Octavo (7-1/2" x 5"). Original cloth, decorative blind stamping to boards, gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, some chipping to spine ends, joints just starting at ends, two nicks to fore-ege of rear board, corners bumped and somewhat worn, free endpapers removed. Moderate toning to interior, faint spotting and light soiling to a few leaves. $150. * Only edition. An anecdotal account of the courts, police and the administration of justice in Boston, Philadelphia and California by a veteran attorney. Having surveyed the field, Fenner concludes: "Happy is the man who avoids litigation, and knows not by personal experience the ramifications of criminal or civil jurisprudence" (vi).… Read More

1956. Cowan, Robert G. Ranchos of California: A List of Spanish Concessions, 1775-1822, and Mexican Grants, 1822-1846. Fresno, California: Academy Library Guild, 1956. 151 pp. Hardbound, cloth, fine. $60.

2003. Hyams, Paul R. Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, [2003]. xxvii, 344 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. $50.

1869. [American Land Report of 1867]. Rapport du Commissaire du Bureau General des Terres Publiques pour L'Annee 1867. Abrege et publie par ordre du Senat des Etats-Unis. Washington: Imprimerie du Gouvernment, 1869.[1], 201 pp. Complete. Nineteenth century publisher's cloth, gilt stamped front cover. Presentation inscription on front pastedown. Hinges cracked but secure. Internal clean. $100.

1792. Paris: Baudouin, Tribunat et du Corps Legislatif. Paris: Baudouin, Tribunat et du Corps Legislatif. Rare Report of the Famous "Solar Affair" Eude, Jean-Francois [1759-1841]. Rapport du Proces Solar, Concernant l'Eleve Sourd et Muet de l'Abbe de l'Epee. [Paris: Baudouin, Imprimeur du Tribunat et du Corps Legislatif, 1792]. 54 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in original patterned wrappers, bottom edge untrimmed. Light toning, occasional light foxing, ink annotations to title page and p. 29, minor corrections to a few other pages. 10-1/4" x 15-1/2" (unfolded, 5-1/4" x 4" folded) manuscript leaf, a list in docket format of services rendered by Eude, laid-in. $1,500. * Only edition. In 1776, a philanthropist and prominent advocate for the deaf, Charles-Michel de l'Epee, took in a deaf and mute child who had been abandoned since 1773. L'Epee came to believe that this child was in fact Joseph de Lafontaine, Count of Solar, who had supposedly died in 1774. He accused Solar's mother… Read More

1845. French-Language Account of Louisiana's 1845 Constitutional Convention [Louisiana]. [Constitution of 1845]. Foullouze (Foulhouze), James, Reporter. Rapports Officiels Des Devats [sic] de la Convention la Louisiane. New Orleans: J. Bayon, Imprimeur de la Convention, 1845. [i], 460, 11 pp. Text in parallel columns. Octavo (9-1/2 x 6-1/4). Later library cloth, red and black calf lettering pieces and paper location label to spine, endleaves added. Some soiling and light shelfwear, some chipping to edges of lettering pieces. Light browning and foxing to text, early (?) mark sin pencil to a few passages, lower corners lacking from a few leaves with no loss to text, library stamp to title page, "8049" in early hand to its verso. $1,850. * Only edition. Louisiana's first constitution was adopted in 1812, its second in 1845. More liberal than its predecessor, it expanded white male suffrage, established public schools and granted the right of appeal to felons sentenced to death or hard labor. The final… Read More

1635. The Last Customs Guide for Revenue Farmers [Great Britain]. [Commissioners of Customs]. The Rates of Marchandizes; As They are Set Downe in the Book of Rates, For the Custome and Subsidie of Poundage, And for the Custome and Subsidie of Clothes. The Same Being Signed by the Kings Majesty, And Sealed with the Great Seale of England, And Remaining in His Highnesse Court of Exchequer at Westminster: And by Speciall Commandment from His Majesty Published in Print, For the Direction of Such as It May Concerne: Together with the Rates of Such Impositions as are Laid Upon Any Commodities, Either Brought into the Realme, Or Carried Out of the Same, According to His Majesties Letters Patents Thereof Under the Great Seale of England. London: Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, 1635. [ii], 13, [111] pp. Lacking final blank. Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/4"). Recent straight-grained morocco, gilt title and date to spine, endpapers renewed, edges rouged. Light rubbing, a few small scuffs to… Read More