Joel Prentiss Bishop
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Joel Prentiss Bishop was an American lawyer and legal treatise
writer referred to by more than one commentator as "the foremost law writer of the age."
Legal treatise
A legal treatise is a scholarly legal publication containing all the law relating to a particular area, such as criminal law or trusts and estates...
writer referred to by more than one commentator as "the foremost law writer of the age."
Works
- Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and Divorce (1852)
- Commentaries on the Criminal Law (1856–1858)
- Commentaries on the Law of Criminal Procedure (1866)
- First Book of the Law (1868)
- Commentaries on the Law of Married Women (1871–1875)
- Commentaries on the Written Laws and Their Interpretation (1882)
- Commentaries on the Law of Contracts (1887)
- Commentaries on the Non-Contract Law (1889)