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Black’s Law Dictionary defines the treatise as “an extended, serious, and usually exhaustive book on a particular subject.”
Secondary source material, information about the law, rather than the law itself, is not so readily accessible online for free.
Understanding the structure of how legal literature is organized depends upon understanding how the three branches of government work.
Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian immigrants accused of killing a payroll clerk and his guard in 1920.
On January 3, 1841, Herman Melville set sail on the whaling vessel Acushnet from Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
In addition to the most up-to-date law books, serials, and online legal resources, the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries maintain collections of rare and historical books on legal topics.
Many of the passengers aboard the Mayflower were members of the Puritan sect who left England to avoid religious persecution.