A Digest of the General Statute Laws of the State of Texas [1859] - Hardcover

Oldham, Williamson S; White, George W

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 158477438X ISBN 13: 9781584774389

Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, 2004

Synopsis

The Last Compilation of Texas Laws Published Before the Civil War

 

Commissioned by an act of the Texas State Legislature in 1858, Oldham and White's Digest was the last compilation of Texas laws published before the Civil War. It includes the general statute laws, repealed laws of the Republic and State of Texas, "by, through, or under which rights have accrued," and the colonization laws of Mexico and of the State of Coahuila and Texas, which were in force before the Declaration of Independence by Texas," the Articles of Annexation, the constitutions of Texas and the United States and a thorough index. It is listed in John H. Jenkins's Basic Texas Books: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works for a Research Library.

[T]he mechanical execution of your Digest seems to me to be highly creditable to the State, and in all respects as good as the Legislature could have contemplated. I think no work of the same kind has been published in the United States, with which your Digest will not bear a very favorable comparison. (...) I think your work is a very full compliance with all the requirements of the Act (...) and that it will be received with much applause by the legal profession in Texas.

James H. Bell

Associate Justice, Texas Supreme Court, 1858-1864

iv, 836, [3] pp.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 158477438X
• ISBN 13: 9781584774389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 852