1872 JOHN H. CAMPBELL. Legal Gazette. Rare Philadelphia Legal Review - Suffrage, Polygamy, Freeman, Insanity

A very scarce legal review and commentary, with no examples on the market and none traced at auction. Edited by John Hugh Campbell, with significant material related to Myra Bradwell's ongoing court battle to obtain her legal license to practice law, suffrage, etc. 

Contents include: On Women as Attorneys at Law [on Myra Bradwell's ongoing battle to become obtain her license to practice law]; On the Right of Women to Vote; Vendors, Vendees, and Caveat Emptor; On the Tichborne Trial [fascinating series on the trial of a man pretending to be the long-lost heir of the wealthy Tichborne family]; Taxation of Distilled Spirits; Sunday Liquor Laws; Women's Suffrage; Slander; Unlawful Conversion of Gambling Transactions; Shipping of Seamen; Extensive Content on the Laws and Regulations Surrounding Railroads; Payment in Confederate Notes and Ongoing Fraud; Jurisdiction of Orphan's Courts; Claims of a Husband against his Wife's Estate; Orphan Inventory; Widow's Claims; Street Loungers and Nuisance Laws; Escapes from Prison; Enlistment of Minors; Lunatic Estates; Insanity as a Defense for Murder; Cruelty to Women and Divorce; Women and Husband Debtors; Purchases with Wife's Money; Wife Whipping; Validity of Debts Incurred for Sale of Slaves; Divorce for Cruel Treatment; Bigamy [Polygamy - Mormons -  Latter Day Saints] and Criminal Law; Degrees of Murder; Competency of Jurors; Selling Liquor on Sunday; on the Content of Slander; Desertion of Children; Evidences of Sanity; Meaning of the Word "Freeman;" etc. etc. 

Campbell, John Hugh. [Ed.], Theodore F. Jenkins. Associate Editor. The Legal Gazette. Philadelphia. Printed by King & Baird. 1872. 416pp.

A good copy, bound in half leather, lightly shaken with boards tender, and generally bright pages. Excellent.