Law Building

Jordan & Anderson, architects. Built 1863. Northwest corner of Diagonal on corner of State and North University. Served as Law School for sixty years; contained chapel until 1873 and library until 1883. Addition built in 1893 included tower. Image includes Benjamin Franklin statue, which was gift of class of 1870. Gathering of people in photograph.

A treatise on the law of sale of personal property with references to the American decisions and to the French code and civil law

Spine title: Benjamin on sales.

Proceedings of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs, appointed by law for the extinguishment of Indian titles in the state of New York. Published from the original manuscript in the library of the Albany Institute.

Includes the text of several treaties.

Codice di Napolione il Grande; traduzione ufficiale. Colle variazione decretate il 3 sttembre 1807, e colle citazioni delle leggi romane.

Mode of access: Internet.

The law of copyright, with an appendix of statutes./

Mode of access: Internet.

A practical summary of the law and usage of bills of exchange and promissory notes [microform] : together with a series of tables, showing when bills, notes and drafts, drawn or accepted at any date, will fall due : to which are added rates of commisson and storage, equation of payments, and general information connected with the business of the counting-house /

Mode of access: Internet.

Liberty and law : a lecture delivered before the Young Men's Association in Geneva, New-York, November 8, 1837, introductory to their course of lectures for the season, and repeated before the Young Men's Association, at Waterloo, N.Y., February 2, 1838 /

Mode of access: Internet.

The lives and opinions of Benj'n Franklin Butler : United States District Attorney for the southern district of New York, and Jesse Hoyt, counsellor at law, formerly Collector of Customs for the port of New York : with anecdotes or biographical sketches of Stephen Allen, George P. Barker ... /

Includes index.

The lives and opinions of Benj'n Franklin Butler, United States district attorney for the southern district of New York; and Jesse Hoyt, counsellor at law, formerly collector of customs for the port of New York; with anecdotes or biographical sketches of Stephen Allen; George P. Barker [etc] ...

Another edition, practically identical, was issued the same year with the author's name corrected.

Report & documents submitted by the Committee appointed to confer with the authorities of the city of Wheeling : respecting the late law of Virginia, granting the right of way to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. through that state. Passed 6th March, 1847.

"An act to authorise the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to construct the extension of their railroad through the territory of Virginia - passed 6th March, 1847": p. 50-53.

Benjamin Handler

Original image (attached to acidic board) was photographed and negative created by Lance Burghardt. Photographer of original print unknown

Benjamin Franklin statue

Pewter statue stood on west side of S. State St. and was the gift of the Class of 1870. At left is Old West Hall, now the site of Betsy Barbour residence. At right is the First Congregational Church. Newspaper article, April 11, 1912, attached to verso with heading "It Was News Then."

Haven Hall [Law Department]

An 1898 addition completely altered the exterior (Spier & Rohns, architect). The tower was removed and a new south wing added. Regents met in south wing until 1933. When Law moved to Hutchins Hall in 1933, building was renamed Haven Hall in honor of Erastus O. Haven, president 1863-1869. Haven Hall became an LS&A building until it was destroyed by fire June 6, 1950. Includes Benjamin Franklin statue.