Hiring a navy
And-a privateering we shall go… It was 242 years ago today when the Continental Congress first took the critical action needed to try to balance out the enormous naval power of the British empire. It had to do it. After all, the colonies were at war. The other...Oh, yes, there are files
More on SCOTUS For the last two days, as The Legal Genealogist struggles to emerge from the fog of jetlag, we’ve been talking about the Supreme Court of the United States and its published opinions. Which, inevitably, led at least one reader — Doug Bell...Not the only game in town
More on finding Supreme Court cases Yesterday, The Legal Genealogist tried to ease back into genealogy blogging after traveling in Australia. It was not the smoothest of transitions. Starting off with not initially giving the link to the collection of U.S. Supreme...Back to work… with the Library of Congress
SCOTUS online for free The Legal Genealogist is back on U.S. soil. After all these days of wandering around Down Under, I may not be entirely certainly as to just where I am at the moment. I am definitely not certain as to what time zone I’m in. But back…...That lesser crime
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Greek, part law French, even part Anglo-Saxon. And all confusing. As genealogists, we all love the bad boys (and girls) of our families. The rogues and rascals and especially the lawbreakers. Because they generally do us the...Crimes: a matter of degree
Differences in crimes It never fails. Really, you’d think that by now The Legal Genealogist would know better. Answer one question, and there’s bound to be the one you didn’t answer that pops right up that you should have anticipated. And so it was...Maybe mayhem… and maybe not
Maybe mayhem The language of the law. Part Latin, part Greek, part law French, even part Anglo-Saxon. And all confusing. Sometimes, so the saying goes, a cigar is just a cigar. But, in the law, sometimes a word doesn’t mean at all what we might think. Case in...Falling between the cracks?
Nice try, no cigar As legal arguments go, it’s one of the better ones. It didn’t work, not one bit, but it’s still a pretty good try. The year was 1866. The place, Wake County, North Carolina. And, on the first of November of that year, a man named...Name that court
Finding the records means knowing the court A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but having forty-‘leven names — depending on the jurisdiction — for one key court creating one key set of records isn’t a sweet thing for genealogists to...Subscribe
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