- A communication to the special committee appointed "to urge the rejection of the proposed civil code": showing the effect of the adoption of the code ... and amended upon the law of general average.
- The Provinces Of The Written And The Unwritten Law: An Address (1889)
- The ideal and the actual in the law: the annual address.
- Codification in the State of New York
- Argument of James C. Carter in opposition to the bill to establish a civil code: before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Albany, March 23, 1887.