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In American law, the American Law Reports are a resource used by American lawyers to find a variety of sources relating to specific legal rules, doctrines, or principles. It has been published since 1919, originally by Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, and currently by West (a business unit of Thomson Reuters) and remains an important tool for legal research.
Mississippi Central Railroad: IC: 1852 1874 New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad: Mississippi Eastern Railway: ME 1903 1942 N/A Mississippi, Gainesville and Tuscaloosa Railroad: GM&O: 1854 1870 Mobile and Ohio Railroad: Mississippi and Schoona Valley Railroad: 1925 1926 Mississippi and Skuna Valley Railroad: Mississippi Southern Railroad ...
The University of Oxford is the setting for numerous works of fiction. Oxford was mentioned in fiction as early as 1400 when Chaucer, in Canterbury Tales, referred to a "Clerk [student] of Oxenford". [313] Mortimer Proctor argues the first campus novel was The Adventures of Oxymel Classic, Esq; Once an Oxford Scholar (1768). [314]
Scots law is a hybrid system based on common-law and civil-law principles. The chief courts are the Court of Session, for civil cases, [239] and the High Court of Justiciary, for criminal cases. [240] The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom serves as the highest court of appeal for civil cases under Scots law. [241]
Although she writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling, before her remarriage her name was Joanne Rowling, [2] or Jo. [3] At birth, she had no middle name. [2] Staff at Bloomsbury Publishing suggested that she use two initials rather than her full name, anticipating that young boys – their target audience – would not want to read a book written by a woman. [2]
14th Chancellor of the College of William & Mary; In office April 30, 1788 – December 14, 1799: Personal details; Born: February 22, 1732 [a] Popes Creek, Colony of Virginia, British America
Born: Harry Craft, American baseball player, center fielder for the Cincinnati Reds from 1937 to 1942, 1940 World Series champion; in Ellisville, Mississippi, United States (d. 1995 ) [ citation needed ]
J. R. R. Tolkien A species from South Africa , "Named after John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who was born in Bloemfontein , Free State, South Africa on 3rd January 1892 and died on 2nd September 1973. His fictional "Middle Earth" is believed to have been inspired in part by the exceptional natural scenery of Hogsback , the type locality of this species."