Early Law and Crime

This CD contains 87 public domain books -- 47 "non-fiction" books about Crime and 40 books about Law. The "crime" includes Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas (18 books in a single file), A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H.B. Irving, Courts and Criminals by Arthur Train, Crime and Its Causes by William Morrison, Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow, Criminal Psychology by Hans Gross, Criminal Sociology and The Positive School of Criminology by Enrico Ferri, Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals (1735), London's Underword by Thomas Holmes, and True Stories of Crime by Arthur Train. The "law" includes The Common Law and The Path of Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., An Essay on Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner, The Oldest Code of Laws in the World by Hammurabi, The Bouvier Law Dictionary, and The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot.

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Table of Contents

Crime and Criminals

• An Account of the Proceedings ont he Trial of Susan B. Anthony
• A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H.B. Irving
• Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas -- 18 books in a single file
• The Borgias
• The Cenci
• Massacres of the South
• Mary Stuart
• Karl-Ludwig Sand
• Urbain Grandier
• Nisida
• Desrues
• La Constantin
• Joan of Naples
• The Man in the Iron Mask (an essay, reflecting on the history behind the novel)
• Martin Guerre (source of the movies "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "Somersby")
• Ali Pacha
• The Countess of Saint Geran
• Murat
• The Marquise de Brinvilliers
• Vaninka
• The Marquise de Ganges
• Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
• Courts and Criminals by Arthur Train
• Notebooks of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
• Crime and Its Causes by William Morrison, 1902
• Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow
• Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practicioners and Students by Hans Gross, translated by Horace Kallen
• Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri
• Disputed Handwriting by Jerome Lavay, 1909
• The Goop Directory of Juvenile Offenders, 1913
• History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard by Daniel Defoe
• Hunted Outlaw or Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy
• The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend
• Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals, 1735. edited by Arthur Hayward
• London's Underword by Thomas Holmes, 1846-1918
• Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida Wells-Barnett, 1900
• The Olden-Time Series, selected by Henry Brooks, 1886
• The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms, 1837
• The Positive School of Criminology by Enrico Ferri
• Secret Band of Brothers by Jonathan Green
• Secret Chambers and Hiding-Places by Alan Fea
• Secret Societies and Subversive Movements by Nesta Webster
• A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries by Christopher Merrett, 1669
• Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases 1982, 1893, 1894 by Ida Wells-BarnettTheir Crimes, 1917
• A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons by Frederick Accun, 1820
• The Trial of Mary Blandy by William Roughead
• True Stories of Crime by Arthur Train, 1908

Law

• The Case of Edith Cavell, a Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants by James Bech
• The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• The Common Law by Robert Chambers
• Conditions in Utah [polygamous marriage] by Thomas Kearns
• Copyright Law of the United States
• The Debs Decision by Scott Nearing
• The Discovery of Witches by Matthew Hopkins, 1647
• Disputed Handwriting by Jerome Lavay
• The Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
• An Essay on Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner
• Experiences of a Barrister by Samuel Warren, 1890
• Hindu Law and Judicature by Yajnavalkya
• The Laws of War Affecting Commerce by H. Byerley Thomson, 1854
• Legal Status of Women in Iowa by Jennie Lansley Wilson
• The Man in Court by Frederic Dewitt Wells, 1917
• Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders [New Zealand], 1928
• Mining Laws of Ohio, 1921
• Moral Principles and Medical practice, the Basis of Medical Jurisprudence by Charles Coppens
• The Oldest Code of Laws in the World by Hammurabi, translated by C.H.W. Johns
• Patent Laws of the Republic of Hawaii, 1897
• The Path of the Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (short)
• Popular Law-Making by Frederic Jesup Stimson
• Six Years in Prisons of England
• Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases by B. Wells-Barrett
• A Vindication of the Press by Daniel Defoe, 1718
• A Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and the Several States of the American Union by John Bouvier, 1856 (from The Constitution Society web site at http://www.constitution.org Included here with permission.
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• Fugutive Slave Law
• The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act by L. Maria Child, 1860
• The Fugutive Slave Law. The Religious Duty of Obedience to Law. a sermon by Ichabod Spencer, 1850
• The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1856
• A Plea for Captain John Brown
• Constitutions
• United States
• Constitution of the United States
• The Constitution of the USA, Analysis and Interpretation, edited by Edward Corwin, 1952
• The Constitution of the United States by James Beck
• Experiments in Goverment and the Essentials of the Constitution by Elihu Root, 1913
• Our Changing Constitution by Charles Pierson, 1922
• Woman Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment, 1917
• Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts by William Apes, 1835
• Constitution of Massachusetts
• Constitution of Virginia
• Constitution of Pennsylvania
• Constitution of New York
• England
• The Constitutional History of England 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge
• The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
• Japan
• Constitution of Japan 1889 (short)
• Constitution of Japan 1946 (short)
• The Constitutional Development of Japan 1863-1881 by Toyokichi Iyenaga, 1891