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Bible and law.

Here are entered works on the influence of the Bible upon secular law. Works on Jewish law, including law in the Bible, are entered under Jewish law.

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• Law

• Law and the Bible

• Called by Stories: Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2000), by Milner S. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biblical Law: Being a Text of the Statutes, Ordinances, and Judgments Established in the Holy Bible, With Many Allusions to Secular Laws, Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Documented to the Scriptures, Judicial Decisions and Legal Literature (Portland, OR: Binfords and Mort, c1943), by H. B. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Other People's Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #18; London: Stevens and Sons, 1966), by Charles James Dalrymple Shaw Kilbrandon (PDF in the UK)
• The Path of the Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• The Riddle of the Ruthvens, and Other Studies (Edinburgh: W. Green and Son, 1919), by William Roughead
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring (11 volumes in 22; Edinburgh: W. Tait; et al., 1838-1843), by Jeremy Bentham, ed. by John Bowring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters, by David D. Friedman
  • JavaScript-dependent page images at daviddfriedman.com
  • HTML of prepublication draft at daviddfriedman.com
• Quistioni di Dritto: Trattate Nella Conclusioni, Ne' Discorsi ed in Altri Scritti Legali (2 volumes in 1, in Italian; Naples: Tipografia Prete Largo Avellino, 1869), by Niccola Nicolini
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (electronic edition, 2011), by Peter W. Martin (frame-dependent HTML at Cornell)

• Session Laws, Resolutions, and Memorials, by Alaska Legislature (partial serial archives)

• Acts of the General Assembly, by Arkansas (partial serial archives)
• Ordinances of the State Convention, Which Convened in Little Rock, May 6, 1861 (Little Rock: Johnson and Yerkes, 1861), by Arkansas Convention (1861) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Acts of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas, by Arkansas Territory (partial serial archives)

• Tales From the Public Domain: Bound by Law? (2006), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (page images with commentary at Duke)

• Acts and Resolutions of the Third Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, held at Richmond, Va. (1861), by Confederate States of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Montgomery, Ala. (Richmond: Enquirer Book and Job Press by Tyler et al., 1861), by Confederate States of America
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Acts and Resolutions of the Second Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Montgomery, Ala. (1861), by Confederate States of America
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, From the Institution of the Government, February 8, 1861, to its Termination, February 18, 1862, Inclusive: Arranged In Chronological Order, Together With the Constitution for the Provisional Government, and the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, and the Treaties Concluded by the Confederate States With Indian Tribes (Richmond, VA: R. M. Smith, 1864), by Confederate States of America, ed. by James M. Matthews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Provisional and Permanent Constitutions of the Confederate States of America (Richmond: Tyler, Wise, Allegre and Smith, Printers, 1861), by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Provisional and Permanent Constitutions, Together With the Acts and Resolutions of the Three Sessions of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States (bound with the Acts and Resolutions of the fourth session; Richmond: Tyler, Wise, Allegre and Smith, Printers, 1861-1862), by Confederate States of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America (with public and private laws for the first session of First Congress, 1862), by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The True-Blue Laws of Connecticut and New Haven, and the False Blue-Laws Invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters; To Which are Added Specimens of the Laws and Judicial Proceedings of Other Colonies and Some Blue-Laws of England in the Reign of James I (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1876), ed. by J. Hammond Trumbull (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ye Olden Blue Laws (New York: The Century Co., 1921), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Annotated Revised Codes of the Territory of Dakota, 1883 (second edition, with supplement on 1885 legislation; St. Paul: West Pub. Co., 1885), by Dakota Territory, ed. by Aaron Burton Levisee and L. Levisee, contrib. by Robert Desty (page images at HathiTrust)

• Radin Law Dictionary (New York: Oceana, c1955), by Max Radin, ed. by Lawrence G. Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Compendious and Comprehensive Law Dictionary: Elucidating the Terms, and General Principles of Law and Equity (London: Printed for Gale and Fenner, 1816), by Thomas Walter Williams (PDF files at Georgetown)
• Nomo-Lexikon: A Law-Dictionary, Interpreting Such Difficult and Obscure Words and Terms, As Are Found Either in Our Common or Statute, Ancient or Modern, Laws (second edition; London: Printed for H. Herringman et al., 1691), by Thomas Blount (page images at HathiTrust)

• East African Community Law: Institutional, Substantive and Comparative EU Aspects (Leiden and Boston: Brill Nijhoff, 2017), ed. by Emmanuel Ugirashebuja, John Eudes Ruhangisa, Tom Ottervanger, and Armin Cuyvers
  • PDF with commentary at brill.com
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Coase Theorem: A Study in Economic Epistemology (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1992), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Contrats Egyptiens Archaïques, Démotiques, Araméens (4 parts, in handwritten French and ancient Egyptian; Paris: Leroux, 1911-1912), ed. by Eugène Revillout (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Selected Writings and Speeches of Sir Edward Coke (3 volumes; Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003), by Edward Coke, ed. by Steve Sheppard (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• Pragmatism and Theory in English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #39; London: Stevens and Sons, 1987), by P. S. Atiyah (PDF in the UK)

• Introducing a European Legal Order (Hamlyn Lectures, #43; London: Stevens and Sons/Sweet and Maxwell, 1992), by Gordon Slynn (PDF in the UK)

• Why Noncompliance: The Politics of Law in the European Union (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Tanja A. Börzel (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• East African Community Law: Institutional, Substantive and Comparative EU Aspects (Leiden and Boston: Brill Nijhoff, 2017), ed. by Emmanuel Ugirashebuja, John Eudes Ruhangisa, Tom Ottervanger, and Armin Cuyvers
  • PDF with commentary at brill.com
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Treaty on European Union (aka the Maastricht Treaty) (Gutenberg text)

• Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly, by Florida (partial serial archives)

• Journal Officiel de la République Française: Lois et Decrets (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Annales de la Faculté de Droit d'Aix (partial serial archives)

• Avis du Comité Consultatif de Jurisprudence Indienne: Publiés Avec une Préface et des Notes (ca. 1897), by French India, ed. by Leon Sorg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hamlyn Revisited: The British Legal System Today (Hamlyn Lectures, #35; London: Stevens and Sons, 1983), by Quintin Hogg Hailsham of St. Marylebone (PDF in the UK)
• English Law: The New Dimension (Hamlyn Lectures, #26; London: Stevens and Sons, 1974), by Leslie Scarman (PDF in the UK)
• English Law and the Moral Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #4; London: Stevens and Sons, 1953), by Arthur L. Goodhart (PDF in the UK)
• Judge and Jurist in the Reign of Victoria (Hamlyn Lectures, #11; London: Stevens and Sons, 1959), by C. H. S. Fifoot (PDF in the UK)
• Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660 (3 volumes; London: HMSO, 1911), by Great Britain, ed. by C. H. Firth and Robert S. Rait
  • illustrated HTML at British History Online
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Blackstone's Commentaries, With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws of the Gederal Government of the United State and of the Commonwealth of Virginia (4 volumes in 5; Philadelphia: Birch and Small, 1803), by William Blackstone, contrib. by St. George Tucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commentaries on the Laws of England (Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1765-1769), by William Blackstone (HTML at Yale)
• The History of the Common Law of England, by Matthew Hale (text at McMaster)
• Magna Carta, ed. by Albert Beebe White and Wallace Notestein (HTML at Fordham)
• Magna Carta (Latin exemplification of 1215, with English translation) (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Statutes of the Realm (11 volumes in 12; reprint of edition originally published 1810-1828), by Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.