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...Books not just for lawyers
Regional case resources It was first published in 1879. It was the first of its kind, and to folks out on the Great Plains, it was a critically needed resource. And, today, it can be exceedingly useful not just to lawyers, but to genealogists as well. It’s the...Family feuds, Kiwi-style
Dueling administrators Oh, the tales the court records tell… And it doesn’t really matters whose court records or where or why… there is always a story to be told. For some reason, The Legal Genealogist ended up poking around in records of the New...Reprise: what’s in a name?
When the name’s not what you wanted The Legal Genealogist is headed to Indiana this weekend, for a two-day bash at the Indiana Historical Society. Tomorrow evening, we’ll explore Blackguards and Black Sheep: The Lighter Side of the Law, and then on...Dividing things up in California
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. This is going to be a very busy week here at The Legal Genealogist, as the spring conference season is in full swing and there’s a lot of preparation going on. So in honor of this...A guide to the laws of war
Digitized 1919 source book In case you hadn’t noticed, The Legal Genealogist is a law geek. I mean, seriously. As in perfectly willing to stay up until all hours reading geeky stuff like, oh, the Mutiny Act of 1689.1 Or the Articles of War from 1775.2 Or the...That Dred-ed decision
Not even on Page One It wasn’t even front page news, one hundred and sixty years ago yesterday. It was only on page 4 of the New York Herald.1 In the Richmond (Virginia) Daily Dispatch, page 2.2 Most newspapers didn’t carry the news until March 9th, when...Paying the fees… or else
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. On the 12th of September 1890, the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, entered an order in the case of Mary Lee Boyle et al. vs. Helen Winn et al. The decision, in Chancery, provided in...Subscribe by Email
