Law For The Layperson

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman" by Albert Sidney Bolles. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Mack explains criminal law in an easy-to-read format, complete with numerous examples that clarify some of the more difficult concepts. It is designed for anyone interested in exploring the basics of criminal law for personal, academic, or professional reasons. High-profile criminal trials have placed criminal law in the national spotlight. While these trials may contain straightforward factual circumstances, often the legal issues surrounding the criminal charges and defenses are complex and confusing. This book explains the basics of criminal law in an easy-to-understand format designed especially for the nonlawyer who has an interest in criminal law. The book approaches criminal law by discussing basic crimes and their elements to help readers understand the necessary requirements for charging and prosecuting crimes. To aid in understanding many of the concepts, the book includes numerous hypothetical situations that place some of the more difficult concepts in an everyday context, thereby making them more understandable. Criminal law defenses are also explored, in order to give readers an awareness of how and why some of the more popular defenses are presented in the criminal justice system. The book also provides an overview of the criminal trial process, from the arrest to the final verdict. Mack succeeds in demystifying criminal law by presenting it in an understandable format designed for the nonlegal scholar.

An essential guide to legal self-help literature by a leading authority in the field. With no previous legal background, you will be able to find books to answer your most frequently asked legal questions, including: → How do I handle my own divorce? → How do I contest my real estate assessment? → How can I help my heirs avoid probate? → What are my rights as a tenant? As a landlord? → What happens if my aunt dies without a will? → How can I patent my invention? → How do I contest a traffic ticket? → How can I legally change my name? → How do I start a small business? → How can I take a business owner to small claims court? → How can I mediate a property line dispute with my neighbor? These and many other legal matters can be handled without hiring a lawyer, or make you better prepared when you do choose to engage a lawyer. This book will lead you to sources of expert advice on doing just that, and saving money in the process. Thousands of other legal questions are addressed in the nearly 900 substantive reviews of self-help books and secondary sources contained in A Layperson's Guide to Legal Research and Self-Help Law Books. Each of the more than eighty-seven legal specialty bibliographies contained in this unique reference tool is preceded by an invaluable introduction which lays out the nature of the law in that field and the sources of that law, whether constitutional, statutory, common law based, or regulatory, or some combination of these. Links to relevant web sites and research sites are also included, as well as a complete directory of public law libraries around the country

Easy to understand guide that enables the nowlawyer to find and read the law.

"This book contributes to a better understanding of the role laypeople hold in the social functioning of law. It adopts the scholarly insight that the law is unthinkable without an everyday legal understanding of the law pursued by laypeople. It engages with the assumption that not only the law's existence but also its development is shaped by the layperson's affirmations, oppositions, ignorance, or negations of the law. This volume thus aims to fill a void in socio-legal studies. Whereas many socio-legal theories tend to conceptualize the law through legal experts' actions, institutions, procedures, and codifications, it argues that such a viewpoint underestimates the role of laypeople in the law's processing and advocates for a strengthened conceptual place in socio-legal theory. This book will appeal to sociolegal scholars and sociologists (of law), as well as legal practitioners and laypersons themselves"--