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A. Lincoln, Esquire : a shrewd, sophisticated lawyer in his time / Allen D. Spiegel.
Van Pelt Library KF368.L52 S68 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spiegel, Allen D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lawyers--Illinois--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- Practice of law.
- History.
- Illinois.
- Practice of law--Illinois--History.
- Law.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 372 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Abraham Lincoln, Esquire
- Place of Publication:
- Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- Reverence for the laws : a political religion
- A. Lincoln, Esquire : the evolution of a lawyer. John A. Lupton, the Lincoln legal papers : a documentary history of the law practice of Abraham Lincoln, 1836-1861
- Lincoln's client assaulted : he questioned his physician's medical school graduation
- Fired for incompetency : asylum's medical superintendent sues
- Lincoln secures a charter for a homeopathic medical school
- Victorian lawyers, improperly healed fractures, and America's first medical malpractice crisis, 1835-1865
- Defense lawyer, A. Lincoln, uses chicken bones in a malpractice case
- Broken wrist without due care : Lincoln defends the physician
- Lincoln's cases of sex, slander and sundry suits
- Abraham and Mary Lincoln and insanity in the courtroom
- Chloroform induced insanity defense confounds lawyer Lincoln
- Lincoln's client refuses to pay the doctor's bill for services
- Lincoln politically selects the medical expert on insanity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-354) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0865547394
- OCLC:
- 47849398
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