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The Common Law is a book written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in 1881, [1] 21 years before Holmes became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The book is about common law in the United States, including torts, property, contracts, and crime. It is written as a series of lectures.
Common Stocks As Long Term Investments, originally published 1924, reprinted (2003) by Kessinger Publishing, ISBN 0-7661-6073-4; Tides in the Affairs of Men. An Approach to the Appraisal of Economic Change, originally published 1940, reprinted (1989) by Fraser Publishing, ISBN 0-87034-090-5 (In this book, he sought to establish a connection between economic booms/busts and changes in the weather.)
Ticker tape was the earliest electrical dedicated financial communications medium, transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines, in use from around 1870 to 1970. It consisted of a paper strip that ran through a machine called a stock ticker , which printed abbreviated company names as alphabetic symbols followed by numeric stock ...
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The theory that American law recognizes ownership to the center of the earth can be traced back to 1766, when William Blackstone boldly proclaimed the doctrine in his famous treatise Commentaries on the Laws of England. It was not a principle of Roman law--despite the Latin phrasing of the maxim--nor was the theory recognized in early common law.
The Year Books are the earliest law reports of England. This name for the later collections of these reports is of modern origin. Substantial numbers of manuscripts circulated during the Late Middle Ages, containing reports of pleas heard before the Common Bench. In the sixteenth century versions of this material appeared in print form.
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S&P 500 Futures are financial futures which allow an investor to hedge with or speculate on the future value of various components of the S&P 500 Index market index.S&P 500 futures contracts were first introduced by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 1982.