A Treatise on the Law of Taxation, Including the Law of Local Assessments
A Treatise on the Law of Taxation, Including the Law of Local Assessments

Author: Thomas McIntyre Cooley

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 804

ISBN-13: 1584773820

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Cooley, Thomas M. A Treatise on the Law of Taxation Including the Law of Local Assessments. Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1886. lxxxviii, 991 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2003054550. ISBN 1-58477-382-0. Cloth. $150. * Reprint of the uncommon first edition of the "Bible" on tax law. Contents include: Taxes, Their Nature and Kinds; The Nature of the Power to Tax; Curing Defects in Tax Proceedings; Official Action in Matters of Taxation; The Construction of Tax Laws; The Sale of Lands for Upaid Taxes; Taxation by Special Assessment; The Remedies of the State Against Collectors of Taxes; Local Taxation under Legislative Compulsion; Enforcing Official Duty under the Tax Laws; The Remedies for Illegal and Unjust Taxation; and more. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 834 (cite to later ed.). Cooley was esteemed as the author of the legal classics A Treatise on Constitutional Limitations (1868) and General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States (1880).

Property Rules
Property Rules

Author: Robin L. Einhorn

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2001-12

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780226194868

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Property Rules, Robin L. Einhorn uses City Council records-previously thought destroyed-and census data to track the course of city government in Chicago, providing an important reinterpretation of the relationship between political and social structures in the nineteenth-century American city. A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book" "[A] masterful study of policy-making in Chicago."—Choice "[A] major contribution to urban and political history. . . . [A]n excellent book."—Jeffrey S. Adler, American Historical Review "[A]n enlightening trip. . . . Einhorn's foray helps make sense out of the transition from Jacksonian to Gilded Age politics on the local level. . . . [She] has staked out new ground that others would do well to explore."—Arnold R. Hirsch, American Journal of Legal History "A well-documented and informative classic on urban politics."—Daniel W. Kwong, Law Books in Review