Legal instruments
Here are entered works on documents written in order to give expression to a legal act or agreement, for the purpose of creating, securing, modifying, or terminating a right, or for the purpose of furnishing evidence of a right. Works on documents having legal relevance in general are entered under the heading Legal documents.
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Die Altbabylonischen Verträge aus Warka (published as part of the Abhandlungen des FünftenInternationalen Orientalisten-Congresses; text in Akkadian, commentary in German; Berlin: A. Asher und Co., 1882), ed. by J. N. Strassmaier- Les Notions Fondamentales du Droit Privé: Essai Critique (in French; Paris: A. Rousseau, 1911), by René Demogue
- The Debt Book: How to Collect Business Debts, by Jim Heath (HTML at viacorp.com)
- Electronic Signatures in Law (fourth edition; London: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2016), by Stephen Mason (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)
- Electronic Signatures in Law (fourth edition; London: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2016), by Stephen Mason (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)
- On Our Own Together: Trust Funds for Families with Financially Dependent Loved Ones and Endowment Funds for Small Not-for-Profit and Charitable Organizations (electronic edition, 2002), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML at carelibrary.com)
- Cases on Principal and Agent, Selected from Decisions of English and American Courts (St. Paul: West Pub. Co., 1914), ed. by Edwin C. Goddard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sales and Leases: A Problem-Based Approach (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2016), by Scott J. Burnham and Kristen Gustafson Juras (multiple formats with commentary at cali.org)
- American Contract Law for a Global Age (current edition; at last catalog update Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2019), by Franklin G. Snyder and Mark Edwin Burge (multiple formats with commentary at cali.org)
- Contract Doctrine, Theory and Practice (3 volumes; Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2012), by J. H. Verkerke
- L'Origine et la Logique de la Jurisprudence en Matière d'Astreintes (extract from Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Civil, in French; Paris: L. Larose, 1903), by A. Esmein
- Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Cynthia J. Brown (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- L'Idée de Faute et la Responsabilité des Choses Inanimées (doctoral thesis in French; Paris: Ollier-Henry, 1914), by D.-C. Stéphanesco Priboy
- L'Idée de Faute et la Responsabilité des Choses Inanimées (doctoral thesis in French; Paris: Ollier-Henry, 1914), by D.-C. Stéphanesco Priboy
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Lettres Recueillies dans une Société, et Publiées Pour l'Instruction de Quelques Autres (2 volumes, in French; Brussels: J. Rozez, 1869), by Choderlos de Laclos (page images at HathiTrust)
- Domestic Enemies: Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Cissie C. Fairchilds (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- De la Déclaration de Volonté: Contribution à l'Etude de l'Acte Juridique dans le Code Civil Allemand (Art. 116 à 144) (in French; Paris: F. Pichon, 1901), by Raymond Saleilles
- Die Geschäftsgrundlage: Ein Neuer Rechtsbegriff (Leipzig: A. Deichert, 1921), by Paul Oertmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Zur Lehre von den Abstrakten Schuldverträgen nach dem BGB (in German; Leipzig: C. L. Hirschfeld, 1903), by Andreas von Tuhr (page images in Germany)
- The German Civil Service Act (Chicago: Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada, 1938), by James K. Pollock and Alfred V. Boerner (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Sanctity of Contracts in English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #10; London: Stevens and Sons, 1959), by David Hughes Parry (PDF in the UK)
- Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray (1992), by Peter L. Shillingsburg (HTML at Victorian Web)
- The Sanctity of Contracts in English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #10; London: Stevens and Sons, 1959), by David Hughes Parry (PDF in the UK)
- A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds (6 volumes; London: HMSO, 1890-1915), ed. by Great Britain Public Record Office (HTML at British History online)
- Quorndon Records (London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1912), by George F. Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Employment Relationship in Anglo-American Law: A Historical Perspective (New York et al.: Greenwood Press, c1989), by Marc Linder
- Kahn-Freund's Labour and the Law (third edition; revised from Hamlyn lecture #24; London: Stevens and Sons, 1983), by Otto Kahn-Freund, P. L. Davies, and M. R. Freedland (PDF in the UK)
- History of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act (Cardiff: D. Owen and Co., 1885), by E. Beavan
- Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Departmental Committee on Habitual Offenders, Vagrants, Beggars, Inebriates, and Juvenile Delinquents, With Appendix and Index (does not include separate Report volume; Edinburgh: Printed for HMSO by Neill and Co., 1895), by Great Britain Departmental Committee on Habitual Offenders, Vagrants, Beggars, Inebriates, and Juvenile Deliquents, contrib. by Charles Cameron (page images at HathiTrust)
- Essays in Conveyancing and Property Law, in Honour of Professor Robert Rennie (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Frankie McCarthy, James Chalmers, and Stephen Bogle (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Law of Torts: A Treatise on the Principles of Obligations Arising From Civil Wrongs in the Common Law; To Which is Added the Draft of a Code of Civil Wrongs Prepared for the Government of India (4th edition; London: Stevens and Sons, 1895), by Frederick Pollock
- The Private War: Being the Truth About Gordon Traill; His Personal Statement (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1907), by Louis Joseph Vance, illust. by H. C. Edwards (page images at Google; US access only)
- The Worldlings (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by Neil Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Rebecca Stern (PDF at Ohio State)
- Criminal Libel and the Duty of Juries, by Joseph Towers and Francis Maseres (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)
- Hypocrisy Unveiled, and Calumny Detected, in a Review of Blackwood's Magazine (based on a 1818 Pilland edition, sometimes misattributed to James Grahame), by Macvey Napier, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe, contrib. by James Grahame (TEI XML and page images at Lord Byron and His Times)
- Hypocrisy Unveiled, and Calumny Detected, in a Review of Blackwood's Magazine (sometimes misattributed to James Grahame; fourth edition; Edinburgh: F. Pillans, 1818), by Macvey Napier, contrib. by James Grahame (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tragedies in New Zealand in 1868 and 1881: Discussed in England in 1886 and 1887 (selected proceedings from the Bryce v. Rusden libel case; London and Bungay: Printed privately by R. Clay and Sons, 1888), ed. by George William Rusden, contrib. by Great Britain High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division (1880-1901)
- Judgment in the Case of David Irving vs. Penguin Books, Ltd. and Deborah Lipstadt, by Great Britain Royal Courts of Justice and Charles Gray (PDF at phdn.org)
- Malice Defeated: or, A Brief Relation of The Accusation and Deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier, Wherein Her Proceedings Both Before and During Her Confinement are Particularly Related and The Mystery of The Meal-Tub Fully Discovered; Together With an Abstract of Her Arraignment and Tryal (London: Printed for E. Cellier, 1680), by Elizabeth Cellier (HTML at Michigan)
- The Tryal and Sentence of Elizabeth Cellier, For Writing, Printing, and Publishing, a Scandalous Libel, Called Malice Defeated, &c... (London: Printed for T. Collins, 1680), contrib. by Elizabeth Cellier (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Employment Relationship in Anglo-American Law: A Historical Perspective (New York et al.: Greenwood Press, c1989), by Marc Linder
- The Story of Contract Law: Formation (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, c2015), by Val Ricks (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Contract Doctrine, Theory and Practice (3 volumes; Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2012), by J. H. Verkerke
- Understanding and Negotiating Book Publication Contracts (c2018), by Brianna Schofield, Robert Kirk Walker, Katherine Bridge, Alfredo Diaz, Karen Graefin vom Hagen, Anna Kuksenkova, and Henry Nikogosyan (PDF with commentary at authorsalliance.org)
- Property (2 volumes; Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2012), by Christian Turner
- password, by Martin Paul Eve (HTML and PDF with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)
- Understanding Rights Reversion: When, Why, and How to Regain Copyright and Make Your Book More Available (c2015), by Nicole Cabrera, Jordyn Ostroff, and Brianna Schofield (PDF with commentary at authorsalliance.org)
- A Battle of the Books, Recorded by an Unknown Writer, For the Use of Authors and Publishers (Cambridge, MA: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1870), by Gail Hamilton (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- E-Resource Licensing Explained: An A-Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries (Washington: Association of Research Libraries, c2024), by Rachael G. Samberg, Katie Zimmerman, Samantha Teremi, Erik Limiptlaw, and Sandra Enimil (multiple formats with commentary at pressbooks.pub)
- Other Worlds: A Story Concerning the Wealth Earned by American Citizens and Showing How it Can be Secured to Them Instead of to the Trusts (Chicago: Lena Jane Fry, 1905), by Lena Jane Fry
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