Joseph Story
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Story · Judge Story
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
American lawyer, author of a treatise on the Conflict of Laws that systematized that branch of law.
Story’s Conflict of Laws, which appeared in 1834, though the work of an American lawyer, forthwith systematised, one might almost say created, a whole branch of the law of England.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
American jurist cited as endorsing the due-process reading of law of the land.
The foregoing interpretation of the words nisi per legem terræ—that is, by due process of law—including indictment, &c.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Supreme Court justice whose opinion is quoted on statutory interpretation.
Story’s Circuit Court Reports, Vol.
Judge Story, in giving an opinion upon the bankrupt act, replies as follows to an argument analogous to that, which is often drawn from the debates of the convention, in opposition to the language of the constitution itself.