CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS.

Military Tribunals for Civilians.-Argument before the Supreme Court of the
United States, in the Mulligan Case, 1867
Constitutionality of Test-Oaths.-Argument before the Supreme Court of the
United States in the Cummings Case, 1867
Military Government of States.-Argument before the Supreme Court of the
United States in the McCardle Case, 1868

Constitutionality of the Enforcement Act.-Argument before the Supreme

Court of the United States in the Cruikshank Case, 1875.

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89

118

180

LAW REFORM.-STATE AND INTERNATIONAL.

STATE.

Reform of the Judicial System of New York.-Letter to Mr. Gulian C. Ver-

219

planck, 1839

Reforms under the Old Constitution.-Letter to Mr. John L. O'Sullivan, 1842. 223

Reforms under the New Constitution.-Pamphlet, 1847.

226

CODES OF PROCEDURE.

Memorial to the Legislature, February, 1847 .

First Report of the Practice Commission, February, 1848

Second Report of the Practice Commission, January 29, 1849.

Third Report of the Practice Commission, January 30, 1849

Final Report of the Practice Commission, December 31, 1849.

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CODES OF COMMON SUBSTANTIVE LAW.

The Codification of the Common Law.-Pamphlet, 1852.

First Report of the Code Commission, February, 1858

Second Report of the Code Commission, March, 1859

Final Report of the Code Commission, February, 1865

Introduction to the Completed Civil Code

Legal System of New York.-Address to the Law Department of the British

Social Science Association, November, 1866

Codification of the Law.-Correspondence with the California Bar, November,

1870

307

. 309

315

. 317

323

338

349

Reasons for the Adoption of the Codes by New York.-Address before the

Judiciary Committees of the two Houses of the Legislature, February,

1873

The Codes of New York and Codification in General.-Address to the Law-

Students of Buffalo, February, 1879

First Project of an International Code.-Address before the British Social

Science Association, at Manchester, October, 1866

The Community of Nations.-Address before the British Social Science Asso-
ciation, at Belfast, September, 1867

Advantages of an International Code.-Address before the American Social

Science Association, October, 1869

Presenting an International Code completed.-Address before the British
Social Science Association, at Norwich, England, October, 1878

Addresses before the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law

At the Hague Conference, September, 1875
At the Frankfort Conference, August, 1878
Applicability of International Law to Oriental Nations.-Paper presented to
the Institute of International Law at the Hague, August, 1875

Collisions at Sea.-Paper presented to the Association for the Reform and

Codification of the Law of Nations, at the Hague, August, 1875

The Franco-Prussian War, and its Effect upon the Law of Nations.-Address

before the New York Association for the Advancement of Science, De-

cember, 1870 .

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462

American Contributions to International Law.-Address before the Interna-

tional Code Committee of America, at Philadelphia, September, 1876 475

MISCELLANEOUS ADDRESSES AND PAPERS ON LAW REFORM.

484

. 494

Study and Practice of the Law.-Article in the "Democratic Review," April,

1844

Reform in the Legal Profession and the Laws.—Address to the Graduating

Class of the Albany Law School, March, 1855.

Magnitude and Importance of Legal Science.-Address to the Law School of

the University of Chicago, September, 1859

International Law and Peace.-Address at the Banquet to the Chinese Em-

bassy, June, 1868 .

Judicial Integrity.-Article in the "Albany Law Journal," October, 1872

The Law and the Legal Profession.-Address at a Dinner of the Mercantile
Library Association, November, 1874

Rights of Parties and Duties of Counsel.-Extracts from Address to the Jury

in the Tweed Case, March, 1876

The Newspaper Press and the Law of Libel.-Article in the "International

Review," July, 1876

Responsibility of American Lawyers for the Government of their Country.-

Address to the Graduating Class of the Albany Law School, May, 1875

Law and Equity.—Letter to the "Albany Law Journal," September, 1878