Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Overview

Works:	1,290 works in 2,554 publications in 1 language and 42,910 library holdings
Genres:	Trials, litigation, etc History Biography Rules Church history Portraits
Roles:	Editor, Composer
Classifications:	KF213.H6, 340.0973

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Publications about Massachusetts

Publications by Massachusetts

Most widely held works about Massachusetts

Judge Sentences Tales from the Bench by Dermot Meagher ( )
Representative opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes ( Book )
Lemuel Shaw : chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1830-1860 by Frederic Hathaway Chase ( Book )
A short history of the treatment that Dr. Samuel Stearns hath met with in Massachusetts, since the commencement of hostilities between Great-Britain and her colonies Exhibiting the troubles he has met with, by reason of his loyalty, and the appearance of false evidence against him. [Three lines in Latin] by Samuel Stearns ( )
The genius of Lemuel Shaw : expounder of the common law by Elijah Adlow ( Book )

Massachusetts legal history : a journal of the Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society ( )
The History of the law in Massachusetts : the Supreme Judicial Court, 1692-1992 ( Book )
The Supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, 1692-1942 by Massachusetts Bar Association ( Book )
Rules of the Supreme Judicial Court, and sundry acts regulating the admission of attornies by Massachusetts ( Book )
Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society journal ( )
Power of the legislature to suspend a law for the benefit of an individual in Massachusetts ( )
An Act Respecting the Production of Copies on Appeals and Reviews, Brought Before the Supreme Judicial Court by Massachusetts ( Book )
An Act Establishing Two Additional Terms of the Supreme Judicial Court and Dispensing with the Attendance of All the Justices at Certain Other Terms by Massachusetts ( Book )
Rules for the regulation of practice in chancery in Massachusetts by Massachusetts ( )
Salem, December 10, 1782. Gentlemen, A bill has passed the House of Representatives, by a small majority, to remove the July Court of Common Pleas from this town to Ipswich by Salem (Mass.) ( )
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the year of our Lord one thousand & eight hundred. an act in addition to an act, entitled, "An act establishing a supreme judicial court within this commonwealth by Massachusetts ( )
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Ipswich ... on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 1810 by Ipswich (Mass.) ( Book )
An Act for the More Convenient Administration of Justice in the Supreme Judicial Court by Massachusetts ( Book )
Appellate procedure by Joseph R Nolan ( Book )
A sketch of the character of the late Chief Justice Parsons exhibited in an address to the grand jury delivered at the opening of the Supreme Judicial Court at Boston, on the twenty-third day of November, 1813, after the usual charge by Isaac Parker ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Massachusetts

Town officer, or, Laws of Massachusetts relative to the duties of municipal officers together with a digest of the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court upon those subjects by Isaac Goodwin ( )
19 editions published between 1805 and 1834 in English and held by 844 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Trial of Thomas O. Selfridge, attorney at law, before the Hon. Isaac Parker, Esquire, for killing Charles Austin, on the public exchange, in Boston, August 4, 1806 by Thomas O Selfridge ( Book )
34 editions published between 1806 and 2007 in English and held by 641 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Equity pleadings and practice in the courts of Massachusetts with frequent reference to the practice in other jurisdictions : with an appendix of forms by P. Emory Aldrich ( )
8 editions published between 1885 and 1896 in English and held by 506 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Report of the trial of Abner Rogers, Jr. indicted for the murder of Charles Lincoln, Jr., late warden of the Massachusetts State Prison : before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, holden at Boston, on Tuesday, January 30, 1844 by Abner Rogers ( )
9 editions published between 1844 and 2007 in English and held by 506 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Bigelow and Bemis were counsel for Rogers. While a prisoner, Rogers stabbed the warden at Charlestown prison to death. He was acquitted on the ground of insanity, but committed suicide a few weeks after the trial by throwing himself out of a window. The case is significant for its early and successful presentation of the insanity defense

Report of the trial of Prof. John W. Webster indicted for the murder of Dr. George Parkman, before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, holden at Boston, on Tuesday, March 19, 1850 by John White Webster ( )
13 editions published between 1850 and 1990 in English and held by 481 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Report of the trial of Leavitt Alley indicted for the murder of Abijah Ellis, in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts by Leavitt Alley ( )
9 editions published between 1875 and 2007 in English and held by 399 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The judicial opinions of Oliver Wendell Holmes : constitutional opinions, selected excerpts and epigrams as given in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1883-1902) by Oliver Wendell Holmes ( Book )
8 editions published between 1940 and 2008 in English and held by 393 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A voice from Leverett Street Prison, or, The life, trial and confession of Simeon L. Crockett, who was executed for arson, March 16, 1836 by Simeon L Crockett ( )
11 editions published between 1836 and 2008 in English and held by 389 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Trial of George Crowninshield, J.J. Knapp, Jun. and John Francis Knapp for the murder of Capt. Joseph White, of Salem, on the night of the sixth of April, 1830 by John Francis Knapp ( )
8 editions published between 1830 and 2007 in English and held by 380 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains only the first trial of John Francis Knapp, where the jury disagreed

The trial of Moses Adams, high-sheriff of the county of Hancock before the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on an indictment for the murder of his wife by Moses Adams ( Book )
13 editions published between 1815 and 2007 in English and held by 356 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The rule in Minot's case again as restated with variations by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts by John Osborne Sargent ( )
3 editions published in 1871 in English and held by 353 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Letter of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court to his excellency the governor, with two judiciary bills drawn by them : which were communicated to the Hon. General Court, by message, June, 1804 by Massachusetts ( )
9 editions published in 1804 in English and Undetermined and held by 352 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A charge delivered to the grand jury for the County of Essex at the Supreme Judicial Court, held at Ipswich, May term, 1832 by Massachusetts ( )
7 editions published between 1832 and 2013 in English and held by 343 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Second trial of John Francis Knapp, at Salem for the alleged murder of Capt. Joseph White by John Francis Knapp ( )
6 editions published in 1830 in English and held by 322 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Opinion of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, in the case of William Eager vs. the Atlas Ins. Co with remarks thereon by Massachusetts ( )
7 editions published in 1833 in English and held by 320 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A defence in abatement of judgment for an alleged libel in the story entitled "Inquire at Amos Giles' distillery" addressed to the Hon. Chief Justice Shaw, at the session of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held in Salem, Dec. 4, 1835 by George B Cheever ( )
5 editions published in 1836 in English and held by 283 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Memorial of Daniel S. Richardson presented to the Supreme Judicial Court, April 15, 1890 by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ( )
6 editions published in 1890 in English and held by 280 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

At the Supreme Judicial Court May term, 1810, in Cumberland ... Thomas Barnes versus the inhabitants of the First Parish in Falmouth by Thomas Barnes ( )
12 editions published in 1810 in English and held by 278 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Proceedings of the Suffolk Bar upon the occasion of the death of Wilder Dwight with the reply of the court : Obiit XIX septemb. MDCCCLXII æt. XXX by Suffolk Bar ( )
5 editions published in 1862 in English and held by 272 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Memorials of Arthur P. Bonney and Frederic T. Greenhalge presented to the Supreme Judicial Court, April 21, 1896 ( )
4 editions published in 1896 in English and held by 265 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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