Great speeches by great lawyers : a collection of arguments and speeches before courts and juries /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Baker, Voorhis & Co.,
1881.
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| Series: | Legal classics library.
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| Online Access: | HeinOnline Legal Classics Library |
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Table of Contents:
- Argument of Patrick Henry, on the right of a state, during the revolution, to confiscate British debts
- Argument of William Pinkney, on the law of constructive treason, in the defense of John Hodges
- Argument of William Wirt, in the case of Gibbons v. Ogden
- Argument of Daniel Webster, in the case of Ogden v. Saunders
- Speech of Sergeant S. Prentiss, in defense of Hon. Edward C. Wilkinson, of Mississippi and others, indicted for murder
- Speech of David Paul Brown, in defense of Alexander William Holmes, indicted for manslaughter on the high seas
- Speech of William H. Seward, in defense of the Negro, William Freeman, indicted for the murder of John G. Van Nest
- Argument of Charles O'Conor, for the claimants, in the case of the Brig-of-War General Armstrong
- Speech of Rufus Choate, on behalf of Helen Maria Dalton, in the Dalton divorce case
- Argument of Edwin M. Stanton, in defense of Hon. Daniel E. Sickles, indicted for the murder of Philip Barton Key
- Speech of James T. Brady, in defense of the "Savannah Privateers, " indicted for piracy
- Argument of John K. Porter, on the constitutionality of legal tender acts
- Metropolitan Bank v. Van Dyck
- Argument of William A. Beach, in defense of Smauel North and others, charged with tampering with soldiers' votes
- Argument of Jeremiah S. Black, in defense of the right to trial by jury
- Argument of David Dudley Field, on the constitutionality of the enforcement act
- Speech of Thomas Erskin, for the prosecution, in the proceedings against Thomas Williams, for publishing Paine's "age of reason"
- Speech of Sir James Mackintosh, in behalf of Jean Peltier, indicted for a libel against Napoleon Bonaparte
- Speech of William C. Plunket, opening for the crown in Rex v. Forbes and others
- conspiracy and riot
- Speech of John Henry North, opening for the defense in Rex. V. Forbes and others
- conspiracy and riot
- Speech of Bartholomew Hoar, opening for plaintiff in Massy v. the Marquis of Headfort
- damages for criminal conversation
- Speech of Thomas Quin, opening for defendant in Massy v. the Marquis of Headfort
- damages for criminal conversation
- Speech of Rt. Hon. George Ponsonby, closing for defendant in Massy v. the Marquis of Headfort
- damages for criminal conversation
- Speech of John Philpot Curran, closing for plaintiff in Massy v. the Marquis of Headfort
- damages for criminal conversation
- Baron Smith's charge to the jury, in the case of Massy v. the Marquis of Headfort
- damages for criminal conversation.