In this book, James R. Maxeiner takes on the challenge of demonstrating that historically American law makers did consider a statutory methodology as part of formulating laws. In the nineteenth century, when the people wanted laws they could understand, lawyers inflicted judge-made, statute-destroying, common law on them. Maxeiner offers the cure for common law, in the form of sensible statute law. Building on this historical evidence, Maxeiner shows how rule-making in civil law jurisdictions in other countries makes for a far more equitable legal system. Sensible statute laws fit together: one statute governs, as opposed to several laws that even lawyers have trouble disentangling. In a statute law system, lawmakers make laws for the common good in sensible procedures, and judges apply sensible laws and do not make them. This book shows how such a system works in Germany and how it would be a solution for the American legal system as well.
One summer night a freight train was hijacked in New Mexico. Rumour, strenuously denied by the United States Government, had it that a quantity of plutonium had been taken. Later, a top-rank nuclear physicist walked out of a Miami hotel and simply vanished. Was there a connection? That was the question that bothered Frank Schneider and Hugo Van Oesler. Things like blackmail, murder and a nuclear bomb in the wrong hands had to add up to something pretty big - but what?
At eighteen he was a hero, or so said Lucille in Liverpool; and he was in love with her. At twenty-eight the encounter with the Cuban Catalina left scars. At thirty-six he came out of the trouble with Sicilian Lucia a little wiser. At thirty-eight Ramona took him in hand, but again only the scar lasted. At fifty-two it seemed like the end of the road for Frank Stride. But who can ever tell where the road finally runs into the sea?
All Roy Farrell had to do was deliver a briefcase to a man named Sampson - manager of the Lucky K gaming club - and wait while he opened it. But what followed added up to quite a packet of trouble for Farrell - and if it had not been for Gail Newcombe's help he might well have ended up dead. But Miss Newcombe wanted something in return, and to Farrell's way of thinking that could spell more trouble - a load of it. And he was right.
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