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Full Title:Samuel Colt vs. The Mass. Arms Company. Report of The Trial of The Above-Entitled Cause, at Boston, on The Thirtieth Day of June, A.D. 1851, Before His Honor, Levi Woodbury, Associate Justice of The Supreme Court of The United StatesDescription: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial.Trials provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++Court RecordHarvard Law School LibraryBoston: White & Potter, Printers. 1851