The Writs of Assistance Case

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, M. H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Namur : University of California Press, [2020]
Temas:
Writs of assistance.
Writs of assistance
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • CHAPTER 1 Bearings
  • CHAPTER 2 Groundworks of Empire
  • CHAPTER 3 The Customs Writ of Assistance
  • CHAPTER 4 The Originating Legislation
  • CHAPTER 5 Imperial Mechanisms
  • CHAPTER 6 The Boston Vice-Admiralty Court
  • CHAPTER 7 Beginnings of the Massachusetts Writ of Assistance
  • CHAPTER 8 The Onset of the Case
  • CHAPTER 9 Collateral Commotions
  • CHAPTER 10 The Demon Collector
  • CHAPTER 11 Hutchinson and the Otises
  • CHAPTER 12 Materials and Setting
  • CHAPTER 13 Gridley
  • CHAPTER 14 Thacher
  • CHAPTER 15 Otis (I)
  • CHAPTER 16 Otis (II)
  • CHAPTER 17 Interval, November, and After
  • CHAPTER 18 Scenario for the Townshend Writ
  • CHAPTER 19 Perspectives at Large
  • CHAPTER 20 Contemporary Retrospects
  • CHAPTER 21 Tailpiece
  • APPENDIX A Case for the Opinion of Attorney General De Grey, 1768
  • APPENDIX B Case for the Opinion of Attorney General Thurlow, 1771
  • APPENDIX C Writ of assistance (English) of George III, 1761'
  • APPENDIX D Customs search warrant from Conductor Generalis
  • APPENDIX E(i) Draft, by Attorney General Edmund Trowbridge, of the Massachusetts writ of assistance, ordered by the Superior Court in August term 1755
  • APPENDIX E(ii) Model for the 1755 Massachusetts writ: ""Breve Assisten' pro Officiar' Custum'
  • APPENDIX F Text of section 6 of the Act of Frauds, 1696
  • APPENDIX G Extract from the London Magazine, March 1760
  • APPENDIX H Memorandum by William Bollan ""relating to the proceedings at Boston with respect to illicit Trade, ec."" 1761-62
  • APPENDIX I John Adams's contemporaneous notes of the writs of assistance hearing in February 1761
  • APPENDIX J John Adams's ""Abstract
  • APPENDIX K Report of the resumed writs of assistance hearing, 18 November 1761, by Josiah Quincy junior
  • APPENDIX L Specimen of 1762 Massachusetts writ of assistance
  • APPENDIX M Article, probably by James Otis, in the Boston Gazette for 4 January 1762
  • APPENDIX N Massachusetts writs of assistance bill, 1762
  • APPENDIX O Post-Townshend writ of assistance drafted and printed for American board of customs commissioners 1768-69
  • Index
  • Table of Cases
  • Table of Statutes

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