2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
North Carolina law book, “Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina, January and June Terms, 1871” by J.M. McCorkle, Reporter, Raleigh, 1871, 787p. octavo, leatherbound, with cases pertaining to the Confederacy, including: State v. Shelton “The Amnesty Act of December 1866, does not embrace the case of a crime, such as rape, committed prior to the 1st day of January, 166, and having no connection with war duties or war passions, but extends to the case of a prisoner who had committed a homicide prior to that time, which was directly connected with, and grew out of the events of the war, and the passions engendered by it, though he was not acting strictly under authority, or during active hostilities...” ; “A person who sold mules to an agent of the Confederate government, with a knowledge that they were to be used in the military service of such government, cannot recover upon a bond given for the price...”; “A bond given in March, 1864, for Confederate money borrowed at that time, payable the 1st of October of the same year ‘in four per cent. Confederate bonds or certifictes, or in Confederate currency to be issued after the 1st of April, 1864’ is not illegal and void, and a recovery may be had upon it for an amount in United States currency, to be estimated according to the legislative scael...”; Much more on Confederate currency. VG.
Click on a thumbnail above to display a larger image below
Hold down the mouse button and slide side to side to see more thumbnails(if available).
Click above for larger image.