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