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Historical Treatises

Historical treatises focused on the practice of law in Georgia published between 1800-1920.

More About This Collection

Date of Original
1819/1917

Subject
Historical treatises
Legal Education
Legal History
State and Local Government Law
Georgia

Location
United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, 33.08014, -83.2321
United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771

Type
Text

Description
This collection includes digitized historical treatises from the Law Library. Most are treatises focused on the practice of law in Georgia published between 1800-1920. The treatises, arranged by publication date, provide insights from attorneys and scholars as the law existed during that time. These books are on a variety of legal topics from property, probate, tort, and family law. The form books encompass a large array of legal topics and provide examples of court filings and contracts used by attorneys during a given time period. Many of these treatises are held in a limited number of libraries with at least one of these titles only being available in our Law Library collection. The Law Library has undertaken digitization of historical codes and treatises from our collection in order to make the legal history of Georgia accessible to researchers. In addition to historical treatises, access to our Law Library collection of Georgia state laws and digests, ranging in date from 1799 to 1933, are freely available in our institutional repository under Historical Georgia Digests & Codes., These titles were digitized in 2021 thanks to a project grant from the Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA). Titles were made freely available and accessible in 2022.

Metadata URL
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/historic_treat/

Holding Institution
Alexander Campbell King Law Library

Rights

1. Gober's Georgia form book and procedure, a collection of legal forms with annotations from the reports of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of Georgia on questions relating to forms and procedure; prepared for the use of the judiciary, the bar, the officers of court, and business me

Creator:: Gober, George Fletcher
Date of Original:: 1917
Collection:: Historical Treatises
Holding Institution:: Alexander Campbell King Law Library

2. A Manual on Land Registration

Creator:: Powell, Arthur Gray
Date of Original:: 1917
Collection:: Historical Treatises
Holding Institution:: Alexander Campbell King Law Library

3. The law of personal injuries and incidentally damage to property by railway-trains, based on the statutes and decisions of the Supreme Court of the state of Georgia

Creator:: Hopkins, John L.
Date of Original:: 1902
Collection:: Historical Treatises
Holding Institution:: Alexander Campbell King Law Library

4. The Georgia form book, or, A collection of legal forms under Georgia law : designed to aid attorneys-at-law, judges, ordinaries, clerks, coroners, sheriffs, justices of the peace, constables, road commissioners, etc, etc., as well as business men in general

Creator:: Silman & Thompson
Date of Original:: 1882
Collection:: Historical Treatises
Holding Institution:: Alexander Campbell King Law Library

5. A treatise on the law of executors, administrators, and guardians

Creator:: Reese, William M.
Date of Original:: 1880
Collection:: Historical Treatises
Holding Institution:: Alexander Campbell King Law Library

6. Legal forms for common use in Georgia : embracing over four hundred approved precedents, for affidavits, agreements, bills of sale, deeds, notes, etc., etc., also, forms in judicial proceedings, arbitrations, attachments, orders, process, pleading, probate of deeds, rules, wills, etc., etc., with others to guide attorneys, magistrates, justices of the Inferior Court, constables, sheriffs, ordinaries, clerks, etc., etc., in the many duties required of them by law : to which is added an appendix containing the statutory provisions as to county officers, magistrates, and elections, the rules of court, and the Constitution of Georgia

Creator:: Hines, John B.
Hines, Richard K.
Date of Original:: 1858
Collection:: Historical Treatises
Holding Institution:: Alexander Campbell King Law Library

7. A compilation of legal forms in use in the state of Georgia, the rules of practice, and state papers

Creator:: Cobb, Howell
Date of Original:: 1842
Collection:: Historical Treatises
Holding Institution:: Alexander Campbell King Law Library

8. The Georgia justice: being a convenient directory for the justices of the peace, and various other civil officers known to the laws of the state of Georgia

Creator:: Greene, Rhodom A.
Lumpkin, John W.
Date of Original:: 1835
Collection:: Historical Treatises
Holding Institution:: Alexander Campbell King Law Library

9. The office and duty of a justice of the peace: and a guide to clerks, constables, coroners, executors, administrators, guardians, sheriffs, tax collectors, and receivers, and other civil officers

Creator:: Clayton, Augustin S.
Date of Original:: 1819
Collection:: Historical Treatises
Holding Institution:: Alexander Campbell King Law Library