The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School LibraryCTRG97-B3102Includes index.St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co. 1905. lxi, 350 p.; 24 cm

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School Libraryocm20764980Chicago: Callaghan, 1895. xxvi, 7-208 p.; 18 cm.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 15. By Dedication.? Dedication is an offer of the land by the owner, and acceptance of it by the public, for public use. The owner of the fee may do this in any way by which his intention to dedicate plainly appears, by parol, by deed or in any other way. But where a statute provides the manner in which the dedication is to be made, a substantial compliance with its provisions is necessary.1 Dedication can not be made by any other than the owner, or his agent, having authority from him for that purpose.' No person in possession without title can dedicate so as to bind the holder of the title;' nor can even a mortgagor bind the mortgagee to a dedication without the latter1s assent.' 16. By Prescription.?Use of a way by the public under claim of right for a great length of time, without objection by theowner, may result in converting the private propertv so used into a highway. But, " before a highway can be established by prescription, it must appear that the general public, under a claim of right, and not by mere permission of the owner, used some defined way without interruption or substantial change for the period of twenty years or more."' The user must be continuous." Interruption, even if it be after nineteen years continuous use, will start the prescription afresh from the time the occupation is resumed. 1 Baker v. Johnston, 21 Mich. 319; Noyes v. Ward, 19 Conn. 250. ' Bushnell v. Scott, 21 Wis. 457; Fort3r v. Stone, 51 la. 373. ' Gentlemen v. Soule, 32 111. 271. 4 City of Moberly v. McShane, 18 Cent. L. J. 17; S. C., 79 Mo. 41. " The existence of a highway by prescription is generally proved by the parol evidence of witnesses that the road in question has been known and used as a highway or road common to all the people for the necessary period of p...

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!