Lever Action Magazine Rifles, Derived from the Patents of Andrew Burgess
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This book covers a wide variety of lever action rifles based on the Burgess patents including Burgess, Marlin, Kennedy, Whitney, Tiesing, and Colt-Burgess rifles. Copious illustrations, patent drawings and photographs. 1976 First Edition.
A practical treatise on criminal procedure: with directions and forms.
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Chicago : Callaghan, 1887. xxxi, 714 p. : forms ; 24 cm.
A Treatise on Pleading and Practice Under the Code of Civil Procedure: With Appropriate Froms (Classic Reprint)
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Samuel Maxwell was an American jurist, congressman, and author of legal treatises.
Background
Samuel Maxwell was born on May 20, 1825 in Lodi, New York, United States. He was the son of Robert Maxwell, a well-to-do farmer, and Margaret (Crosby) Maxwell, a woman of education and refinement. During his boyhood, financial reverses caused the family to move to Michigan, and here young Maxwell, following a well-worn western formula, worked on a farm, taught school, and studied law.
Career
In 1856 he pushed farther west, to Plattsmouth, Nebraska, where he took and improved a "claim. " Within two years, however, he returned to Michigan, read law in a brother's office at Bay City, and was admitted to the bar. The year 1859 found him once again in Nebraska. His political career was early under way. He was a member of the territorial legislatures of 1859-60, 1865, and 1866, of the first state legislature, June 1866, and of the constitutional conventions of 1864, 1871, and 1875. The first of these conventions was opposed to statehood, and refused to draw a constitution. In the others Maxwell, thanks to his knowledge of legal fundamentals and his skill as a debater, took a prominent part. In 1870 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. In 1872 he was elected justice of the state supreme court, and by successive reelections was a member of the court continuously from 1873 to 1894, serving much of the time as chief justice. His influence over the court during this formative period was tremendous. He served longer than any other judge who sat with him, and he wrote far more than his share of the court's opinions. One of his outstanding characteristics was an impatience of legal technicalities. If substantial justice could be done, he was content, and as "Substantial Justice" Maxwell he was generally known. This pleased the public, but lawyers who saw well established rules of law treated with little respect did not always approve. Moreover, Maxwell was never an ardent party man, and some of his decisions failed to find favor with the Republican machine. His renominations, therefore, were conceded somewhat grudgingly, and finally in 1893 a Republican convention rejected him. This defeat undoubtedly was meant as a rebuke to the Chief Justice for his attitude in two important cases. In one, an election contest with the governorship of the state at stake, he had held against the majority of the court that the Democratic candidate was entitled to the office. In the other, which involved the impeachment of some faithless Republican state officials, he had again deserted his colleagues and had written a blistering dissenting opinion. Maxwell now went over to the Populists, in whose doctrines he had come to believe. He was their unsuccessful candidate for the supreme court in 1895, and as a fusionist won a seat in Congress by the election of 1896. Here he did his share towards carrying on the losing fight for free silver, but he failed of renomination, and in 1899 retired to private life. He died at Fremont, Nebraska, and was buried at Plattsmouth. He was in comfortable financial circumstances at the time of his death in 1901, and left a small legacy to his family. He wrote or compiled Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of Nebraska (1877), A Treatise on the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, and Constables (1879), A Practical Treatise on Criminal Procedure with Directions and Forms (1887), and A Treatise on the Law of Pleading under the Code of Civil Procedure, Designed for All the Code States (1892). Most of these books are handy manuals of great value to the practising lawyer. They have gone through many editions and have continued in use through much of the Middle West.
Samuel Maxwell was married three times: first to Amelia A. Lawrence of Michigan, second to Jenette M. McCord, third to Elizabeth A. Adams. He was the father of eleven children, nine of whom survived infancy.