Kansas
Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The name of one of the states of the United States of America. The state was carved out of a portion of the Louisiana purchase, and a small portion of the territory ceded to the United States by Texas. The territory of Kansas was organized by an act of congress, dated May 30, 1864. The constitution was adopted at Wyandotte July 29, 1859, and Kansas was admitted Into the Union as a state, by an act of the congress, approved, January 20, 1861. An amendment providing for woman suffrage was adopted In 1912. “The body of the laws of England as they existed in the fourth year of the reign of James I. (1G07) constitutes the common law of this state.” Kansas Pac. Ry. Co. v. Nichols, 9 Kan. 252, 12 Am. Rep. 494,