Focusing on Model Jury Charges for use in connection with fidelity cases, this text aims to assist attorneys representing clients involved in such matters. Extensive research has been provided so that the work may also be used as a research tool.

Jackson unravels the complex meanings of equal protection doctrine and its various interpretations over the last 134 years. After comparing equal protection laws in the U.S. to those in Canada and India and certain provisions of international law, he offers possible ways to resolve apparently intractable conflicts between individualism and affirmative action policies.

"The digest of decisions relating to national banks was for many years included as part of the comptrolller's Annual report. Prior to 1902 this was confined to decisions by the federal courts, but in that year a large number of state decisions were added. Since that date all decisions of the federal courts have been included and a few selected state decisions added thereto."--Pref., vol. II, p. iv.