Servants of the Law
Judicial Politics on the California Frontier, 1849-89
Seiten
2010
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-4891-2 (ISBN)
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-4891-2 (ISBN)
This book examines the lives of two famous California judges, David S. Terry and Stephen J. Field, who created a lasting influence on the politics and judicial history of California's Supreme Court during the court's formative years of 1855 to 1865.
Servants of the Law examines the lives of two famous California judges, David S. Terry and Stephen J. Field, who created a lasting influence on the politics and judicial history of California's Supreme Court during the court's formative years of 1855 to 1865. These jurists shared the state's highest bench from 1857 to 1859 and, as events would later show, they confronted one another combatively, on and off, for almost thirty-five years. California's beginnings as a United States territory and later as the nation's thirty-first state were, in large part, fashioned in the wake of the country's malevolent and unforgiving the Civil War. Together, Terry and Field's lives served as an animate metaphor for the cultural and constitutional diversity that many nineteenth-century northern and southern judicial immigrants held toward one another.
Servants of the Law examines the lives of two famous California judges, David S. Terry and Stephen J. Field, who created a lasting influence on the politics and judicial history of California's Supreme Court during the court's formative years of 1855 to 1865. These jurists shared the state's highest bench from 1857 to 1859 and, as events would later show, they confronted one another combatively, on and off, for almost thirty-five years. California's beginnings as a United States territory and later as the nation's thirty-first state were, in large part, fashioned in the wake of the country's malevolent and unforgiving the Civil War. Together, Terry and Field's lives served as an animate metaphor for the cultural and constitutional diversity that many nineteenth-century northern and southern judicial immigrants held toward one another.
Donald R. Burrill is an emeritus professor of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles.
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 1. El Dorado Chapter 4 2. A Hasty Footpath to Statehood Chapter 5 3. From Juris Civilus to Use and Custom Chapter 6 4. A Judicial Activist Chapter 7 5. Justices of the Supreme Bench of California Chapter 8 6. Persona non Grata Chapter 9 7. Growing Resentments Chapter 10 8. Political Dreams Chapter 11 9. Jus et Fraus Nunquam Cohabitant (Law and Fraud Never Cohabitat) Chapter 12 10. Injury Unrequited Chapter 13 11. Dishonor en Absentia Chapter 14 Selected Bibliography Chapter 15 Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.2.2011 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 492 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7618-4891-6 / 0761848916 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7618-4891-2 / 9780761848912 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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