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James Manford Kerr
James Kerr was a law editor and writer. "Jones' Index of Legal Periodicals gives Mr. Kerr credit with having written more articles for the various law magazines of the country, which were worthy of preservation, than any living writer, except Irving Brown[e], editor of the Albany Law Journal. He is a member of the law firm of Chamberlain and Kerr, of Rochester, N.Y. where he stands high as an attorney and journalist." [Thos. W. Herringshaw (ed.), Local and National Poets of America 997 (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1890)] Writings James M. Kerr, Interstate Extradition (St. Louis: G.J. Jones & Co., 1880) ____________, The Law of Business Corporations including their organization and management, their powers and obligations, their rights and privileges, their assessment and taxation, their dissolution and winding up, receivers for and judicial control over, and the like, embracing the New York Business Act, the New York Manufacturing Act, the New York Condemnation Law, the New York Weekly Payment of Wages Law, the New York Consolidated Corporation Act, and the New Jersey and West Virginia acts (New York: Banks & Bros., 1890) ____________, A Treatise on the Law of Homicide: Including a complete history of the proceedings in finding and trying an indictment therefor; together with a chapter on defences to homicide (New York & Albany: Banks & Brothers, 1891) ____________, A Treatise on the Law of Real Property (New York & Albany: Banks & Brothers, 1895) ____________, Practice on Attachment and Garnishment of Property in the State of Ohio with complete forms (Norwalk, Ohio: Laning Printing Co., 1898) ____________, The Codes of California: as amended and in force at the close of the thirty-sixth session of the Legislature, 1905: in four volumes (San Francisco: Bender-Chaquette, 1906-1908) ____________, A Treatise on the Law of Mechanics' Liens and Building Contracts: with annotated forms (San Francisco: Bender-Moss Co., 1908) ____________, The Codes of California as amended and in force at the close of the thirty-sixth session of the legislature, 1905. Fully annotated by James M. Kerr (San Francisco: Bender-Moss Co., 1908) ____________, The Codes of California as amended and in force at the close of the thirty-eighth session of the Legislature, 1909 (San Francisco: Bender-Moss Co., 1909) ____________, Notes on the Nevada Reports, volumes 1 to 30 inclusive, showing the present value as a precedent and an authority of each case in these reports as determined through citation, affirming, applying, criticising, denying, doubting, developing, limiting, overruling, strengthening - or in any way affected by subsequent decisions of this court, the courts of last resort of sister states, of the federal courts, and in the notes to American decisions, American reports, American state reports, and Lawyers reports annotated (both series)(San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Co., 1911) ____________, Mining and Water Cases Annotated; a collection of leading American, Canadian and English Cases on the topics of irrigation, drainage, reclamation, mining, oil, gas and related subjects, with annotations, indexes and forms (Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1912) ____________, Consolidated Supplement to Kerr's Cyclopedic California Codes: containing all the additions, amendments, amendments to amendments, changes and repeals, affecting the various codes of the State, approved by the Governor, passed by the extraordinary sessions of 1906 and 1907, and the regular sessions of 1907, 1909, 1911 and 1913, bringing the Cyclopedic codes down to the close of the fortieth session of the Legislature (San Francisco: Bender-Moss, 1913) ____________, A Selection of Adjudicated Criminal Forms and Precedents of Indictments and Informations, adapted to use in the several states (San Francisco: Bender-Moss Co., 1918) ____________, A Treatise on the Law of Pleading and Practice under the Procedural Codes adopted to use in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming (San Francisco: Bender-Moss Co., 1919) ____________, Supplement to Second Edition of Kerr's Cyclopedic California Codes: containing all the additions, amendments, and repeals made by the forty-fourth Legislature and to Henning's general laws, third edition, containing all amended, new, and repealed general laws, other than appropriations, made by the forty-fourth Legislature (San Francisco: Bender-Moss, 1922) ____________, Civil Code: annotated (Los Angeles: California Law Book Co., 1924) ____________, Political Code Annotated (Los Angeles: California Law Book Co., 1924) ____________, Penal Code (annotated): Adapted to the wants of policemen, game wardens, city marshals, constables, etc. (Los Angeles: The California Law Book Co., 1924) ____________, Kerr's small codes of California (Los Angeles: California Law Book Co., 1924) Additional Writings Francis Wharton, A Treatise on Criminal Procedure (San Francisco: Bender-Moss Co., 10th ed., 1918)(significant additions by James M. Kerr) Richard Harris, Before and at trial. What should be done by counsel, solicitor and client (Northport, Long Island, New York: Edward Thompson Company, 1890)(James M. Kerr ed.)(1st American from the 2d English ed.) John G. Crocker, The Duties of Sheriffs, Coroners and Constables with practical forms (New York: Banks & Bros., 3rd ed., 1890)(rev. and enl. by James M. Kerr) Charles Hastings Wiltsie, A treatise on the law and practice of foreclosing mortgages on real property, and of remedies collateral thereto with forms (Rochester, New York: Williamson Law Book Co., 1897)(2 vols.)(with a supplement, bringing the work down to March, 1897, and additional chapters on mortagage redemptions, by James M. Kerr) S. Bloom, A treatise on the law of mechanics' liens and building contracts with annotated forms (San Francisco: Bender-Moss Co., 1910)("the whole work revised, corrected, brought down to date, and completed by James M. Kerr") |
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