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Uses (Law)

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• Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement and Political Manipulation at America's Largest Charitable Trust (originally published 2006; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017), by Samuel P. King and Randall W. Roth
  • multiple formats with commentary at Hawaii
  • HTML at Project MUSE

• The Dodd Report to the Reece Committee on Foundations (with commentary by the publisher; New York: Long House, c1954), by Norman Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria: From the Original Manuscript in the Possession of the Right Hon. Earl Cowper, K.G. (2 volumes in Latin with English notes; London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1897), ed. by Stuart A. Moore
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Cartulaire des Abbayes de Saint-Pierre de la Couture et de Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (cartulary in Latin, with introduction and notes in French; Le Mans: Typ. E. Monnoyer, 1881), ed. by Congrégation de France (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Richard Herr (HTML at UC Press)

• Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Richard Herr (HTML at UC Press)

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

• 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
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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)

• A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton (HTML at Indiana)

• From the Test Tube to the Coffin: Choice and Regulation in Private Life (Hamlyn Lectures, #47; London: Stevens and Sons/Sweet and Maxwell, 1996), by Brenda Hale (PDF in the UK)
• A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton (HTML at Indiana)

• Illegitimacy (London: Printed by the London and County Printing Works, n.d.), by Tennessee Claflin Cook
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• On the Uncertainty of the Signs of Murder in the Case of Bastard Children (London: J. Callow, 1818), by William Hunter (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Law of Trusts (Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2013), by Browne Lewis (multiple formats with commentary at cali.org)
• Handbook of the Law of Trusts (St. Paul: West Pub. Co., 1921), by George Gleason Bogert
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act (online edition, 2011), by Native American Rights Fund (HTML and PDF with commentary at narf.org)

• Who Owns the Family? God or the State? (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press; Nashville et al.: T. Nelson, c1986), by Ray R. Sutton (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• The Community Land Trust: A Guide to a New Model for Land Tenure in America (originally published 1972; reprinted 2007), by Robert S. Swann, Shimon Gottschalk, Erick S. Hansch, and Edward Webster (PDF at smallisbeautiful.org)

• Financing State and Local Economic Development (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1983), ed. by Michael Barker, contrib. by Robert N. Wise, Belden Hull Daniels, Lawrence Litvak, Michael Kieschnick, and Derek Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Guardian: A Play in Four Acts (1907), by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Cap'n Warren's Wards, by Joseph Crosby Lincoln, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Simple Story (London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington et al., 1820), by Mrs. Inchbald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Simple Story (London: R. Bentley, 1833), by Mrs. Inchbald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times (London: Colburn and Co., 1851), by Caroline Sheridan Norton (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Wych Hazel (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1876), by Susan Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner (page images at Harvard)
• Wych Hazel (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1888), by Susan Warner and Anna Bartlett Warner (Gutenberg text)
• The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe (Gutenberg text)
• The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry (third edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795), by Ann Radcliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Old Man's Love (2 volumes in 1; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1884), by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Pomfret's Ward: or, A Vermonter's Adventures in Mexico (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, n. d.), by A. J. H. Duganne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trustee From the Toolroom (c1960), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Black Arrow, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • HTML at kellscraft.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text; 2 MB
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne (PDF at gasl.org)
• A Little Rebel: A Novel (Montreal: John Lovell and Son, c1891), by The Duchess
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Sylvia of the Hill Top (Boston: The Page Co., 1916), by Margaret Piper Chalmers, illust. by Gene Pressler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Peggy Stewart (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Gabrielle E. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peggy Stewart at Home (Chicago: Goldsmith Pub. Co., 1920), by Gabrielle E. Jackson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Peggy Stewart, Navy Girl, At Home, by Gabrielle E. Jackson (Gutenberg text)

• A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act (online edition, 2011), by Native American Rights Fund (HTML and PDF with commentary at narf.org)

• The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption: Treaty Doc. 105-51 and its Implementing Legislation (1999), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• Convention on Protection of Children and Co-Operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (aka the Hague Convention; 1993) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hddh.net)
• The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption: Treaty Doc. 105-51 and its Implementing Legislation (1999), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• No Name: A Drama in Five Acts, by William Bayle Bernard, contrib. by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)
• No Name: A Drama, in Four Acts, by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)

• Lizzie Leigh, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Gutenberg text)
• No Name (novel), by Wilkie Collins
  • illustrated HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text

• Negro Illegitimacy in New York City (New York: Columbia University Press, 1926), by Ruth Reed (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• The Unmarried Mother: A Study of Five Hundred Cases (Criminal Science Monograph #3; 1918), by Percy Gamble Kammerer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Love-Children: A Book of Illustrious Illegitimates (New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931), by Miriam Allen De Ford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anthony Adverse (c1933), by Hervey Allen (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Old Maid (The 'Fifties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• To the Last Man, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• To the Last Man (Roslyn, NY: W. J. Black, c1922), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adam Bede, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• Adam Bede (New York: J. B. Alden, 1884), by George Eliot (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Charlotte Temple, by Mrs. Rowson (Gutenberg text)
• Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth (2 volumes in 1; Boston: C. Ewer, 1824), by Mrs. Rowson (multiple formats at Google)
• East Lynne, by Mrs. Henry Wood (Gutenberg text)
• Howards End, by E. M. Forster (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• Red Ruth: The Birth of Universal Brotherhood (different titles on different pages; Kansas City, MO: Burton Pub. Co., c1916), by Anna Ratner Shapiro, illust. by Carl S. Junge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tides of Barnegat, by Francis Hopkinson Smith (Gutenberg text)
• The Sound and the Fury (originally published 1929), by William Faulkner (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
• The Scarlet Letter (Ticknor and Fields edition, 1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (illustrated edition; New York: G. H. Doran Co., n.d.), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, illust. by Hugh Thomson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text; 2 MB
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne (PDF at gasl.org)
• Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (London: Partridge and Oakley, 1853), by William Wells Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Clotelle (Boston: J. Redpath, 1864), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Clotelle, or, The Colored Heroine (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Clotelle, or The Colored Heroine, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg text)
• Possession (London: Macmillan and Co., 1923), by Mazo De la Roche (multiple formats at archive.org)

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