An Act to Incorporate the Wilmington and Raleigh R.R. Company
Title | An Act to Incorporate the Wilmington and Raleigh R.R. Company PDF eBook |
Author | North Carolina |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1835* |
Genre | Railroads |
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An Act to Incorporate the Wilmington and Raleigh R.R. Company
Title | An Act to Incorporate the Wilmington and Raleigh R.R. Company PDF eBook |
Author | North Carolina. General Assembly |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1849* |
Genre | Railroads |
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An Act, to Incorporate the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company
Title | An Act, to Incorporate the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company PDF eBook |
Author | Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road Company |
Publisher | |
Pages | 7 |
Release | 1835 |
Genre | Railroad law |
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An Act to Incorporate the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad Co
Title | An Act to Incorporate the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad Co PDF eBook |
Author | North Carolina |
Publisher | |
Pages | 23 |
Release | 1867* |
Genre | Railroads |
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Railroads and American Law
Title | Railroads and American Law PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Ely, Jr. |
Publisher | University Press of Kansas |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2001-12-06 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0700611444 |
No enterprise is so seductive as a railroad for the influence it exerts, the power it gives, and the hope of gain it offers.—Poor's Manual of Railroads (1900) At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in its transformative impact on American life and law. A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system. James W. Ely Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions-the railroad and American law-had a profound influence on each other. Ely chronicles how "America's first big business" impelled the creation of a vast array of new laws in a country where long-distance internal transport had previously been limited to canals and turnpikes. Railroads, the first major industry to experience extensive regulation, brought about significant legal innovations governing interstate commerce, eminent domain, private property, labor relations, and much more. Much of this development was originally designed to serve the interests of the railroads themselves but gradually came to contest and control the industry's power and exploitative tendencies. As Ely reveals, despite its great promise and potential as an engine of prosperity and uniter of far-flung regions, the railroad was not universally admired. Railroads uprooted people, threatened local autonomy, and posed dangers to employees and the public alike-situations with unprecedented legal ramifications. Ely explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which those ramifications played out, as railroads crossed state lines and knitted together a diverse nation with thousands of miles of iron rail. Epic in its scope, Railroads and American Law makes a complex subject accessible to a wide range of readers, from legal historians to railroad buffs, and shows the many ways in which a powerful industry brought change and innovation to America.
Act of Incorporation and Prospectus of the Raleigh and Eastern North Carolina Company
Title | Act of Incorporation and Prospectus of the Raleigh and Eastern North Carolina Company PDF eBook |
Author | Raleigh and Eastern North Carolina Railroad Company |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | North Carolina |
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Act of Incorporation and Prospectus of the Raleigh and Eastern North Carolina Railroad Company
Title | Act of Incorporation and Prospectus of the Raleigh and Eastern North Carolina Railroad Company PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1903* |
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