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Minnesota Legal Publications

Historical Minnesota Legal Books

This is a portion of the Minnesota Law section. It includes some early digests of Minnesota court cases as well as books on the history of law and lawyers in Minnesota and other practice materials. We even have one volume in Swedish!

The law, courts, and lawyers in the frontier days of Minnesota: an informal legal history of the years 1835 to 1865

This is a print of an article on Minnesota Legal History by former Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Sheran & Timothy Baland originally published in William Mitchell Law Review.

Cover of Historical sketch of the Supreme Court of Minnesota

Historical sketch of the Supreme Court of Minnesota: with portraits of the five judges, photographs of the exterior of the Minnesota capitol and interior of the court consultation room ; together with miniature reproductions of four of the Supreme Court

This is a print of an article that originally appeared in the journal Case & Comment in 1912.

Rules of Civil Procedure for the District Courts of Minnesota, 1952

This book is personalized for the State Librarian at the time, Josephine Smith.