Journal of Southern Legal History

Volume VI, Numbers 1 & 2
1998

Table of Contents

ARTICLES

The Investigation of the Behavior of Judge Emory Speer-Lack of Judicial Temperament Does Not Impeachment Make
by Marshall Burke Dukes
Page 1

United States v. The Right, Title, and Interest of Hugh Latham: Judge John Underwood's Radical Civil War Interpretations of Forfeitures for Treason
by Nathan K. Cummings
Page 55

Fisher v. Allen: The Southern Origins of the Married Women's Property Acts
by Megan Benson
Page 97

Joseph Gault and the Root Doctor
by Lawrence B. Custer
Page 123

ORAL HISTORY

Introduction to Oral Interview
by Yonna Windham Shaw
Page 147

An Oral Interview with H. Holcombe Perry, Jr. and Jesse W. Walters
Interview conducted by Jack Jenkins
Page 149

HISTORICAL REPRINT

Chief Justice Logan Bleckley: An Introduction
by Jack L. Sammons
Page 161

A Man for His Time, Words for Our Time
by Joseph E. Claxton
Page 165

Wit and Wisdom of Chief Justice L.E. Bleckley in the Georgia Reports.
Paper read by Albert H. Russell, Augusta, Ga.
Page 167

BOOK REVIEWS

A Peculiar Humanism: The Judicial Advocacy of Slavery in High Courts of the Old South, 1820-1850.
By William Wiethoff (Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1996)
by Thomas D. Russell
Page 199

Policing the Southern City: New Orleans, 1805-1889.
By Dennis C. Rousey (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996)
by Arthur K. Steinberg
Page 203

A TEACHER'S AFTERTHOUGHTS

Through the Eyes of a Lawyer
by Joseph E. Claxton
Page 211