Thomas McIntyre Cooley
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 804
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Cooley, Thomas M. A Treatise on the Law of Taxation Including the Law of Local Assessments. Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1886. lxxxviii, 991 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2003054550. ISBN 1-58477-382-0. Cloth. $150. * Reprint of the uncommon first edition of the "Bible" on tax law. Contents include: Taxes, Their Nature and Kinds; The Nature of the Power to Tax; Curing Defects in Tax Proceedings; Official Action in Matters of Taxation; The Construction of Tax Laws; The Sale of Lands for Upaid Taxes; Taxation by Special Assessment; The Remedies of the State Against Collectors of Taxes; Local Taxation under Legislative Compulsion; Enforcing Official Duty under the Tax Laws; The Remedies for Illegal and Unjust Taxation; and more. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 834 (cite to later ed.). Cooley was esteemed as the author of the legal classics A Treatise on Constitutional Limitations (1868) and General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States (1880).
