Roger Williams, The Founder of Providence – The Pioneer of Religious Liberty

By Amasa M. Eaton, A.M., LL.B. With Suggestions for Study in Schools by Clara E. Craig. Department of Education, State of Rhode Island. Rhode Island Education Circulars, Historical Series II – 1908. A biography of Roger Williams first delivered as an address before the Rhode Island Historical Society on October 2, 1906, on the unveiling of the tablets placed by the state to mark the site of the spring where the settlers first landed and on the site the Roger Williams Home Lot.https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/ri_history/1013/thumbnail.jp

Negotiable Instruments Law Its History and Its Practical Operation

July 1 1878, several leading lawyers in different states, public spirited men, issued a call for a meeting, to form an American Bar Association. Pursuant to this call seventy-five prominent members of the bar and others, interested in the proposal met at Saratoga Springs, New York, August 21, 1878, and the American Bar Association came into being. The first object of the Association, as stated in the call for this meeting, was to assimilate the laws of the different states, and the first article of the Constitution as then adopted and as it still stands, is as follows: Its object shall be to advance the science of jurisprudence, promote the administration of justice and uniformity of legislation throughout the Union, uphold the honor of the profession of the law and encourage cordial intercourse among the members of the American Bar

Negotiable Instruments Law Its History and Its Practical Operation

July 1 1878, several leading lawyers in different states, public spirited men, issued a call for a meeting, to form an American Bar Association. Pursuant to this call seventy-five prominent members of the bar and others, interested in the proposal met at Saratoga Springs, New York, August 21, 1878, and the American Bar Association came into being. The first object of the Association, as stated in the call for this meeting, was to assimilate the laws of the different states, and the first article of the Constitution as then adopted and as it still stands, is as follows: Its object shall be to advance the science of jurisprudence, promote the administration of justice and uniformity of legislation throughout the Union, uphold the honor of the profession of the law and encourage cordial intercourse among the members of the American Bar

On Uniformity in Judical Decisions of Cases Arising under the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Act

When the American Bar Association was formed in 1878, the first object stated in the call was to assimilate the laws of the different states, and the first article of the Constitution stated that one of the principal objects of the Association was to advance the science of jurisprudence, to promote the administration of justice and uniformity of legislation throughout the Union