Tag: Banking

What was lost was (almost) found

Written on June 7, 2018.

Isn’t it amazing what you can find if you look hard (or long) enough? Take for example the gentleman recently visited our Indio branch with a very straight forward request (well, as “straight forward” as a legal research question can be, I guess). Seems he wanted to know if we had anything by “Witkin” dealing with small claims procedures. For those not in the know “Witkin” is a code word for the series of books written by Bernard E. Witkin. The Witkin...

Oldies but Goodies

Written on December 23, 2014.

In a recent delivery to our Indio Branch, a small yet powerful paperback arrived. It was The Constitutions of California and the United States, Ref. KFC 679.U55. Yes, you can find the US and California Constitutions online, but there is nothing like grabbing this little book and taking a walk through time. This book contains a chronological stroll through some of the most important documents ever written, in one easy to read paperback. Starting with the the Magna Carta (1215), this document...