The library of Lysander Spooner

1. Commentaries on the Laws of England William Blackstone 9 authority · 1 neutral 10 citations

   An Essay on the Trial by Jury

   ch. 7 · ch. 8 · ch. 9 · ch. 20 · ch. 23

   7 citations

   The Unconstitutionality of Slavery

   secondly. · ch. 14

   2 citations

   The Law of Intellectual Property

   ch. 32

   1 citation

   “Among the most remarkable of the Saxon laws we may reckon * * the election of their magistrates by the people, originally even that of their kings, till dear-bought experience evinced the convenience and necessity of establishing an hereditary succession to the crown.

2. Jones on Bailments Sir William Jones 2 authority · 1 neutral 3 citations

   Natural Law, or the Science of Justice

   ch. 12

   1 citation

   An Essay on the Trial by Jury

   ch. 23

   1 citation

   The Law of Intellectual Property

   ch. 32

   1 citation

   Sir William Jones, an English judge in India, and one of the most learned judges that ever lived, learned in Asiatic as well as European law, says:

3. History of England Lingard 10 authority · 5 neutral 15 citations

   An Essay on the Trial by Jury

   ch. 7 · ch. 8 · ch. 9 · ch. 12 · ch. 13 · ch. 20 · ch. 23

   14 citations

   The Law of Intellectual Property

   ch. 32

   1 citation

   “It was necessary that the king should obtain the assent of these (the members of the Witena-gemotes) to all legislative enactments;

4. Constitution of the United States Framers of the United States Constitution 5 authority · 1 neutral 6 citations

   The Unconstitutionality of Slavery

   ch. 4 · ch. 5 · ch. 8 · secondly. · ch. 14

   4 citations

   An Essay on the Trial by Jury

   section ii.↩ · ch. 14

   2 citations

   Now, the constitution of the United States is but the charter of a corporation.

5. Commentaries on American Law James Kent 3 authority · 1 endorsed 4 citations

   An Essay on the Trial by Jury

   ch. 5 · ch. 23

   2 citations

   The Law of Intellectual Property

   ch. 28 · ch. 32

   2 citations

   Kent, describing the difficulty of construing the written law, says:

6. Lysander Spooner 1 authority · 3 extended 4 citations

   The Law of Intellectual Property

   ch. 9 · ch. 30 · ch. 32

   3 citations

   An Essay on the Trial by Jury

   ch. 14

   1 citation

   Of the certainty of this law of nature, or the ancient English common law, I may be excused for repeating here what I have said on another occasion.

7. the law of nature natural law tradition 2 authority 2 citations

   An Essay on the Trial by Jury

   appendix.↩, taxation.↩

   1 citation

   The Law of Intellectual Property

   ch. 1 · ch. 6 · ch. 8

   1 citation

   The wealth of nature, thus taken, and made property, was provided for the use of mankind.

8. Magna Carta King John of England 8 authority · 1 neutral 9 citations

   An Essay on the Trial by Jury

   ch. 2 · ch. 6 · ch. 7 · ch. 8 · ch. 14 · ch. 15 · ch. 16 · appendix.↩, taxation.↩ · and 1 more chapter

   9 citations

   In such cases, the principle of Magna Carta unquestionably is, that the uniform judgments of successive juries shall prevail over the opinion of the court.

9. Mirror of Justices unknown medieval author 6 authority · 1 endorsed 7 citations

   An Essay on the Trial by Jury

   ch. 5 · ch. 7 · ch. 8 · ch. 9 · ch. 15 · ch. 16 · ch. 23

   7 citations

   The Mirror of Justices, (written within a century after Magna Carta,) in the section “Of Judges”—that is, jurors—says:

10. David Hume 4 authority · 2 neutral 6 citations

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury

    ch. 4 · ch. 9 · ch. 20 · ch. 23

    6 citations

    Hume calls the trial by jury “An institution admirable in itself, and the best calculated for the preservation of liberty and the administration of justice, that ever was devised by the wit of man.

11. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages Henry Hallam 3 authority · 1 refuted · 1 endorsed 5 citations

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury

    ch. 7 · ch. 8 · ch. 23

    5 citations

    “In the succeeding reign of John, all the rapacious exactions usual to these Norman kings were not only redoubled, but mingled with outrages of tyranny still more intolerable.

12. History of English Law Crabbe 4 authority 4 citations

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury

    ch. 8 · ch. 9 · ch. 23

    4 citations

    “The sheriff presided at the hundred court, * * and sometimes sat in the place of the alderman (earl) in the county court.

13. History of Great Britain Robert Henry 3 authority · 1 endorsed 4 citations

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury

    ch. 7 · ch. 8 · ch. 23

    4 citations

    “As the aldermen, or earls, were always chosen” (by the people) “from among the greatest thanes, who in those times were generally more addicted to arms than to letters, they were but ill-qualified for the administration of justice, and performing the civil duties of their office.

14. Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth Francis Palgrave 4 authority 4 citations

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury

    ch. 8 · ch. 23

    4 citations

    It was the practice of appointing justiciars to represent the king’s person, to hold his court, to decide his pleas, to dispense justice on his behalf, to command the military levies, and to act as conservators of the peace in the king’s name.

15. Declaration of Independence Continental Congress 2 authority · 1 endorsed 3 citations

    The Unconstitutionality of Slavery

    ch. 5 · secondly. · ch. 14

    3 citations

    Admitting, for the sake of the argument, that prior to the revolution, slavery had a constitutional existence, (so far as it is possible that crime can have such an existence,) was it not abolished by the declaration of independence?

16. Dictionary Bailey 3 neutral 3 citations

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury

    ch. 23

    3 citations

    ”—Bailey’s Dict.

17. Institutes of the Laws of England Coke 1 authority · 2 refuted 3 citations

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury

    ch. 23

    3 citations

    Coke, in his exposition of the words legem terræ, gives quite in detail the principles of the common law governing arrests;

18. Law Dictionary Bouvier 1 authority · 2 neutral 3 citations

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury

    ch. 23

    3 citations

    Tomlin says, “The ancient practice was, when any such fine was imposed, to inquire by a jury quantum inde regi dare valeat per annum, salva sustentatione sua et uxoris et liberorum suorum, (how much is he able to give to the king per annum, saving his own maintenance, and that of his wife and children).

19. Paradise Lost Milton 3 neutral 3 citations

    The Law of Intellectual Property

    ch. 26 · ch. 31

    3 citations

    And he attempts to screen Milton from the disgrace, which he assumes would have attached to him, if he had accepted the five pounds for his Paradise Lost, out of any regard to the worldly value of that sum.

20. George Crabbe 2 authority 2 citations

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury

    ch. 20 · ch. 23

    2 citations

    Crabbe says, “It is admitted on all hands that it (Magna Carta) contains nothing but what was confirmatory of the common law and the ancient usages of the realm;

21. James Mackintosh 2 neutral 2 citations

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury

    ch. 23

    2 citations

    Mackintosh’s Hist.

22. James Tyrrell 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury

    ch. 8 · ch. 23

    2 citations

    in which, the freeholders being judges, such causes were brought as could not be determined in the Hundred court.

23. Demosthenes 1 neutral 1 citation

    The Law of Intellectual Property

    ch. 14

    1 citation

    Who can suppose that the poems of Homer, Shakespeare, and Milton, or the orations of Demosthenes, Cicero, and Burke, would ever have seen the light, had not Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, Demosthenes, Cicero and Burke themselves existed?

24. Homer 1 neutral 1 citation

    The Law of Intellectual Property

    ch. 14

    1 citation

    Who can suppose that the poems of Homer, Shakespeare, and Milton, or the orations of Demosthenes, Cicero, and Burke, would ever have seen the light, had not Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, Demosthenes, Cicero and Burke themselves existed?

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

The Unconstitutionality of Slavery

Articles of Confederation ¶ · Constitution of South Carolina ¶ · History of the United States ¶ · Jacob's Law Dictionary · Ogden vs. Saunders (12 Wheaton, 332) · Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States · Somerset's case · colonial charters · 1667 Virginia baptism statute · 1712 South Carolina baptism act · 1740 South Carolina slave code · 1753 Virginia slavery statute · 23 George II, ch. 31 (An act for extending and improving the trade to Africa) · American Dictionary · An Act to settle the Trade to Africa (9 and 10 Wm. 3, ch. 26) · An act for the better ordering and governing of negroes and slaves (1740) · Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution (apportionment clause) · Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution (apportionment clause) · Article 1, Section 9 of the United States Constitution (migration or importation clause) · Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution (fugitive service or labor clause) · Articles of Confederation (1778) · Charter of Rhode Island · Coke's Institutes (1 Inst. 183, 197) · Colonial charters of Virginia, Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, and Rhode Island · Commerce Clause of the Constitution of the United States · Commerce Clause, Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution · Constitution of Connecticut (1818) · Constitution of Georgia ¶ · Constitution of Maryland ¶ · Constitution of New Jersey · Constitution of New York ¶ · Constitution of North Carolina ¶ · Constitution of Pennsylvania (1776) · Constitution of Tennessee · Constitution of Virginia (1776) · Constitution of the United States (Guaranty Clause, Article IV, Section 4) · Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 2 (electors qualification clause) · Constitution of the United States, First Amendment · Contracts Clause of the Constitution of the United States · De Laudibus Legum Angliae · Debates in the Several State Conventions (Elliot's Debates) · Enactment concerning freemen (Province of Pennsylvania) · English common law tradition regarding the word 'free' · Genesis (Tower of Babel narrative) · Gibbons vs. Ogden, 9 Wheaton 1 · Guaranty Clause of the Constitution of the United States · Habeas Corpus Clause of the Constitution of the United States · History of the American Revolution · Institutes ¶ · Jacob's Law Dictionary, title Law · Life of Patrick Henry · M'Culloch vs. Maryland, 4 Wheaton 403 · Madison Papers (notes of the constitutional convention) · Magna Charta (1215) · Martin vs. Hunter's Lessee, 1 Wheaton 324 · Militia Clauses of the Constitution of the United States · Mitchell vs. Great Works Milling and Manufacturing Company, Story's Circuit Court Reports vol. 2, p.653 · Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention · Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · Patent and Copyright Clause of the Constitution of the United States · Pawlet v. Clarke (9 Cranch's U.S. Reports 332-3) · Post Office Clause of the Constitution of the United States · Preamble to the Constitution of the United States · Presidential eligibility clause of the Constitution of the United States · Schooner Paulina's Cargo vs. United States, 7 Cranch 60 · Selden on Fortescue · Shepherd's Abridgment · Somerset v. Stewart · Somerset v. Stewart (Lofft's Reports 1-19) · State constitutions of the United States · Statutes of North Carolina (Iredell, revised by Martin) · Supremacy Clause of the Constitution of the United States · Supreme Court decision on the scope of the commerce power · The Federalist, No. 42 · Treason and Trial by Jury Clauses of the Constitution of the United States · Treaty of cession of Florida · Treaty of cession of Louisiana · United States Constitution (domestic violence guaranty clause) · United States v. Fisher (2 Cranch 390) · United States vs. Fisher et al., 2 Cranch, 390 · War Powers Clauses of the Constitution of the United States · Whitney et al. vs. Emmett et al., 1 Baldwin, C.C.R. 316 · definition of law (as given in Webster's dictionary) · opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States ¶ · recognition of colonial charters and common law authority · rule of strict construction in favor of natural right · speech and writings affirming the law of nature and the Declaration of Independence · statute of 1750 (23 George 2, ch. 31) · statute of 1788 respecting the slave trade · the common law of England

Natural Law, or the Science of Justice

Ancient legal maxim ("to live honestly, to hurt no one, to give every one his due")

An Essay on the Trial by Jury

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VIII c.12) · Ad questionem juris non respondent juratores (Civil Law maxim, per the Annotist) · American State Constitutions and Bills of Rights · An Historical View of the English Government · Articles of the Great Charter of Liberties · Assertion on the force of royal orders under the Norman princes · Bacon's Abridgment · Bouvier's Law Dictionary · Boyer's French Dictionary · Charter of Emperor Conrad of Germany · Christian's Blackstone (annotated edition) · Coke's rendering of Magna Carta's nec super eum mittemus · Commentaries / Law Tracts · Commentaries on the Constitution · Confirmatio Cartarum, 25 Edward I (Statutes of the Realm) · Constitutional and historical writings on medieval England · Constitutions of New Hampshire and Tennessee · Crabbe's historical account of English law · Cunningham's Law Dictionary · De Republica Anglorum (Commonwealth of England) · Description of the ancient Germans · Discourse on the Origin and Nature of the English Constitution · Dissertation on the Government of the Anglo-Saxons · Encyclopaedia Americana · Encyclopedia · English Liberties · English statutes on jury property qualifications (1 Richard III to 4 George II) · Essay on Grand Juries · Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution · Fleta ¶ · Forma Juramenti Regis Angliae (Coronation Oath) · General History of England · Glanville's treatise on the laws of England · Hale's historical account of English law · Hargrave's Collection of State Trials · Historical Dissertation Concerning the Antiquity of the English Constitution · Historical Dissertation on the Antiquity of the English Constitution · Historical writings on Anglo-Saxon England · History (early parliaments) · History of England (Appendices) · History of the Anglo-Saxons · History of the Common Law of England · History of the Common Pleas · History of the Common Pleas / Court of Exchequer · History of the Exchequer · History of the Revolution in England / History of England · Institutes of the Lawes of England · Institutes of the Laws of England (1 Inst., 2 Inst.) · Institutes of the Laws of England (2 Inst. 44) and commentary on due process · Institutes of the Laws of England (2nd Institute) · Institutes of the Laws of England, commentary on the Statute of Gloucester (2 Inst.) · Introduction to Gilbert's History of the Common Pleas · Introduction to History of the Common Pleas · Introduction to the Charters / Commentaries · Jacob's Law Dictionary (Tomlin's edition) · Judges' Oath (statute of 1344) · Kelham's account of the standing laws of England and the coronation oath · Law of Canute (in Wilkins' Ancient Laws and Institutes of England) · Law of Ethelred · Law of Henry II (1164) · Laws of Alfred (trans. R. Price) · Laws of Moses ¶ · Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England · Lord Somers' tract on Grand Juries · Magna Carta (Charter of King John) · Magna Carta (Great Charter of English Liberties) · Magna Carta, chapter 29 (trial-by-jury chapter) · New Commentaries on the Laws of England · New York Reports (19 Wendell; 4 Hill) · Nolumus Leges Angliae mutari (legal maxim) · North Carolina Revised Statutes · On the Constitution of England · On the Court of Chancery · Origin of the Laws and Political Institutions of Modern Europe · Preliminary Discourse to the Laws of William the Conqueror · Reports and Institutes · Speech in the House of Lords (Law Reporter, 1848) · Starkie on Slander (2d edition, Preliminary Discourse) · Statute 20 Edward III (1346) · Statute 28 Edward III, ch. 9 (1354) · Statute 8 Henry VI, ch. 7 (1429) · Statute confirming the Charter of Liberties and the Charter of the Forest · Statute forbidding delay of common law by great or privy seal · Statute forbidding disturbance of common right by the great or little seal · Statute forbidding disturbance of law by signet or privy seal letters · Statute of 1 William and Mary, ch. 6 (1688) · Statute of 1285 (13 Edward I) · Statute of 1341 (15 Edward III) · Statute of 1414 · Statute of 18 Edward III (Oath of the Justices) · Statute of 51 Henry III (1266) · Statute of Gloucester (6 Edward I) · Statute of Gloucester, ch. 11 and 12 (1278) · Statute of Westminster ¶ · Statute of Westminster the First, ch. 35 (1275) · Statute on Juror Summons Abuses (Edward I) · Statute on Sheriff Appointment (1315) · Statute on assizes of novel disseisin (enacted c. seventy years after Magna Carta) · Statute/letter to the Sheriff of Stafford · Statutes of Edward III (Statute of Westminster 1346; 28 Edw. III; 25 Edw. III; 37 Edw. III cap. 8) · Statutes of England following Magna Carta (Statute of Merton; Articuli super Chartas; due-process statutes) · Statutes of the Realm ¶ · Temporary charter of King John to the barons (1215) · Term Reports (opinion of Lord Mansfield) · Tractatus de Legibus (Glanville), ed. Beames · Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Angliae (Glanville's Preface) · Tractatus de legibus (Glanville's treatise) · Treatise on the Constitution of England · Trial per pais (Common Law doctrine) · Webster's Dictionary · Worcester's Dictionary · commentary on the alternative clause of Magna Carta · doctrine attributed to Coke on royal command as a qualifying condition · glossary entry 'voc. Balivus' · his corroborating observation on the common law · his observations on the common law · his writings on Asiatic and European law · legal maxim on ignorance of the law (ignorantia eorum, quae quis scire tenetur, non excusat) · the customary description of trial by jury as "the palladium of liberty" · the legal doctrine of mala prohibita · traditional legal maxim (multi litigant in foro...) · unspecified treatise of Bracton, referenced via Coke's marginal notes · writings on the history of the common law of England

The Law of Intellectual Property

Opinion in Millar v. Taylor (reported argument) · 1366 judicial opinion on patent grants · 4 Burrows (Reports) · A Treatise on the Law Relative to Patents for Inventions · Act of Parliament of 1628 limiting patent duration · Argument against the right of property in ideas · Burrow's Reports · Cochrane v. Smethurst (1816) · Coke's account of the fulling-mill ordinance · Coke's reasoning on patent privileges · De minimis non curat lex (legal maxim) · Donaldson vs. Becket · Donaldson vs. Becket, 17 Parliamentary Hist. 991 · Entick v. Carrington (State Trials) · Felton v. Greaves (1829) · Institutes of the Laws of England (Third Institute) · List of Patents · Lives of the Lord Chancellors · Magna Charta ¶ · Millar v. Taylor · Millar v. Taylor (1769) · Millar vs. Taylor (1769) · Millar vs. Taylor, 4 Burrows 2303, 2364-5 · New York Tribune article on the reaping machine (Sept. 15, 1854) · Of Cases Omitted in Law · Parable of the Talents · Parliamentary History · Parliamentary History (report of the case, 17 Parl. Hist. 999-1000) · Patent Act of 1835 · Principles of natural law · Renouard's Argument, translated in American Jurist No. 43 · Speech opposing literary property, delivered in Donaldson v. Becket · Statute against Monopolies (21 James I) · Statute of 8th Anne · Statute of Anne (Act of 1710) · Statute of Monopolies (Act of 1623) · The Great Charter (Magna Carta) ¶ · Tonson v. Collins (1760-1761) · an estimate that the steam engine had quadrupled the wealth of the United States · patent statutes of the United States and England granting only civil, temporary protection · the ancient English coronation oath · the fable of the hen (or goose) that laid the golden eggs · the orations of Burke · the orations of Cicero · the poems of Milton · the poems of Shakespeare · the recognized practice and rulings of courts of justice · the works of Angelo · the works of Raphael · unnamed writings on jurisprudence · unnamed writings on natural law

2 works in the library quote Lysander Spooner — 5 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Lysander Spooner 4 citations · The Law of Intellectual Property 1 citation

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1. The Law of Intellectual Property Lysander Spooner 1 authority · 3 extended 4 citations · 12 passages

   ch. 9 2 passages anchored here · ch. 30 4 passages anchored here · ch. 32 6 passages anchored here

   The passage explicitly builds on and extends conclusions from the preceding chapter of the same work.

   The objections that will be urged to the principles of the preceding chapter, are the following.

2. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner 1 extended 1 citation · 20 passages

   ch. 14 20 passages anchored here

   The author explicitly identifies this long passage as a repetition of his own earlier writing.

   Of the certainty of this law of nature, or the ancient English common law, I may be excused for repeating here what I have said on another occasion.