Baxter, Maurice G.  1920- <br/><br/>
Henry Clay the lawyer /Maurice G. Baxter. 

 - Lexington :  The University Press of Kentucky,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource (154 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. The Legal Scene; 2. Early Practice; 3. Economic Issues; 4. Banking; 5. Nonconstitutional Business; 6. Slavery; 7. Overview; Appendix: Table of Clay's Cases; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. 
<br/><br/> Though he was best known as a politician, Henry Clay (1777-1852) maintained an active legal practice for more than fifty years. He was a leading contributor both to the early development of the U.S. legal system and to the interaction between law and politics in pre-Civil War America. During the years of Clay's practice, modern American law was taking shape, building on the English experience but working out the new rules and precedents that a changing and growing society required. Clay specialized in property law, a natural choice at a time of entangled land claims, ill-defined boundaries, and. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813159553 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Lawyers--United States--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF368  / .H467 2015