The Writs of Assistance Case
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The Writs of Assistance Case

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The Writs of Assistance Case

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520327382
eBook ISBN
9780520327405
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Public Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Abbreviations
  4. CHAPTER 1 Bearings
  5. CHAPTER 2 Groundworks of Empire
  6. CHAPTER 3 The Customs Writ of Assistance
  7. CHAPTER 4 The Originating Legislation
  8. CHAPTER 5 Imperial Mechanisms
  9. CHAPTER 6 The Boston Vice-Admiralty Court
  10. CHAPTER 7 Beginnings of the Massachusetts Writ of Assistance
  11. CHAPTER 8 The Onset of the Case
  12. CHAPTER 9 Collateral Commotions
  13. CHAPTER 10 The Demon Collector
  14. CHAPTER 11 Hutchinson and the Otises
  15. CHAPTER 12 Materials and Setting
  16. CHAPTER 13 Gridley
  17. CHAPTER 14 Thacher
  18. CHAPTER 15 Otis (I)
  19. CHAPTER 16 Otis (II)
  20. CHAPTER 17 Interval, November, and After
  21. CHAPTER 18 Scenario for the Townshend Writ
  22. CHAPTER 19 Perspectives at Large
  23. CHAPTER 20 Contemporary Retrospects
  24. CHAPTER 21 Tailpiece
  25. APPENDIX A Case for the Opinion of Attorney General De Grey, 1768
  26. APPENDIX B Case for the Opinion of Attorney General Thurlow, 1771
  27. APPENDIX C Writ of assistance (English) of George III, 1761'
  28. APPENDIX D Customs search warrant from Conductor Generalis
  29. APPENDIX E(i) Draft, by Attorney General Edmund Trowbridge, of the Massachusetts writ of assistance, ordered by the Superior Court in August term 1755
  30. APPENDIX E(ii) Model for the 1755 Massachusetts writ: "Breve Assisten' pro Officiar' Custum' "
  31. APPENDIX F Text of section 6 of the Act of Frauds, 1696
  32. APPENDIX G Extract from the London Magazine, March 1760
  33. APPENDIX H Memorandum by William Bollan "relating to the proceedings at Boston with respect to illicit Trade, ec." 1761-62
  34. APPENDIX I John Adams's contemporaneous notes of the writs of assistance hearing in February 1761
  35. APPENDIX J John Adams's "Abstract"
  36. APPENDIX K Report of the resumed writs of assistance hearing, 18 November 1761, by Josiah Quincy junior
  37. APPENDIX L Specimen of 1762 Massachusetts writ of assistance
  38. APPENDIX M Article, probably by James Otis, in the Boston Gazette for 4 January 1762
  39. APPENDIX N Massachusetts writs of assistance bill, 1762
  40. APPENDIX O Post-Townshend writ of assistance drafted and printed for American board of customs commissioners 1768—69
  41. Index
  42. Table of Cases
  43. Table of Statutes