TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 8 P40

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 8 P40 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 378 REX Reward Prominent Villain Rewards have ended countless criminal careers. On occasion the lure of money has even been enough to entice criminals to turn in their associates. Such was the downfall of the famous nineteenth-century outlaw Jesse James 1847-1882 . After the . Civil War James quickly became one of the most notorious bandits on the . frontier. With his older brother Frank Jesse led the so-called James Gang through several robberies and murders during the 1860s and 1870s. Their daring holdups of banks stage coaches and trains made them figures of romantic myth for readers and prime targets for law enforcement posses which they long managed to evade. A reward brought James to his end. Having barely escaped with his life after a thwarted bank robbery in Northfield Minnesota in 1876 that left two of his gang dead James hired new outlaws and lived under an alias in Missouri. In 1881 Thomas T. Crittenden the state s governor offered a reward of 10 000 for James s capture dead or alive. One of the new gang members Robert Ford contacted the governor then bided his time. On April 3 1882 Ford saw his chance in James s house. When the gunslinger laid down his pistols and climbed on a chair to adjust a picture frame Ford shot him in the head and instantly killed him. What the law had been unable to do one of the lawless accomplished. B 100. This rule is based on the theory that without such knowledge there can be no meeting of the minds which is essential to the formation of a contract. Knowledge of a statutory remedy is not necessary to entitle the claimant to recover it. When a reward is offered to the public anyone who performs the required service can claim and accept the reward except persons who are under a duty to perform such services. A law enforcement officer therefore cannot claim a reward if the service performed is within the line and scope of the officer s duty. This prohibition will apply even if the officer performed the service at a time

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