Van Buren, Martin; et al. Attorneys General - Construction of Public Laws : Message from the President of the United States, transmitting Copies of opinions given by Attorneys General, &c., which give construction to the public laws not of a temporary character. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1841. First Edition. [11673]
Full sheep, red leather title label to spine, ex library with paper spine label, stamps & bookplate inside. Edges worn with some scuffing, yet with good joints, tight. 9 x 6 inches, xvi, 1495 pp., including index. Good. Hardcover.
26th Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives, Doc. No. 123.
"Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States, from the Commencement of the Government down to the 1st March, 1841."
All of the decisions deemed permanent from the time of Edmond Randolph to Henry D. Gilpin. The entire volume of 1,485 pages is taken up with this one report, and it has an extensive index. These early US judicial opinions treat with every significant topic in which the attorneys general were engaged, and include military matters, slavery, interpretations of laws, Indian treaties & wars, financial compensations, bank of the United States, executive powers, jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, public lands, law of nations, free Negroes, patents, pensions, privateers, regulations of the army, restoration of slaves, the slave-trade, admission of new states, tariffs, ships and shipping, widows of pensioners, witnesses, &c., &c.
