For the betterment of the brew
For good beer! It was a good year, 1722, in the Province of Pennsylvania. The Legal Genealogist is sure of that, having spent yesterday evening deep in the pages of the Pennsylvania Statutes at Large. Yes, there’s another trip coming up, to the North Hills...Guilty as charged
Hoosier crimes In anticipation of this weekend’s Genealogy & Local History Fair at the Indiana State Library — a whole day focusing on “Crime and Punishment in Indiana” — The Legal Genealogist spent some time last night poking around in the early...The damn what?
That Indiana writ In 1838, at the end of its 22nd session, the Indiana Legislature authorized and published the Revised Statutes of the State of Indiana. Published by Douglass & Noel, Printers, in Indianapolis, the laws were arranged, compiled, and published by...An act for the relief of…
Kentucky’s private laws The Legal Genealogist, in case you hadn’t noticed, loves law books. Any kind of law books. Court record books. Law dictionaries. Legal treatises. And most of all, the statute books. The session law books. The day-to-day things that...Turf protection, 19th century style
Oh, no, you don’t! There is a concept in licensing law called reciprocity. In the law generally, it means “mutuality. The term is used in international law to denote the relation existing between two states when each of them gives the subjects of the other...Idle talk in Tennessee
The Police Blotter In the first week of October 1858, some 48 men and women were arrested in the City of Memphis, Tennessee, and their names and their alleged offenses carefully inscribed into the blotter of the Memphis Police. John Leary, on October 1, 1858,...Records lost and found
What really was lost in 1897 Given The Legal Genealogist’s deep German roots (my father was born in Germany and emigrated as a child), it’s always a pleasure to speak to the German Genealogy Group in New York, and last night was no different. Great group,...Laws of the Great Lakes State
Michigan’s historic laws In case you hadn’t noticed, The Legal Genealogist looooooooves HathiTrust. It’s “a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the...Reprise: reversion of dower
Dower and reversion and merger, oh my! Because The Legal Genealogist is headed off to Detroit later this week for the amazing free Family History Festival at the Detroit Public Library, Michigan is getting some special attention here. And there’s no question...Subscribe by Email
