Common Law in Colonial America

Auteur: Nelson, William E. (Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, New York University)
Editeur: Oxford University Press Inc
This volume traces English efforts to govern the Chesapeake and New England colonies by imposing the common law. Although every colony received the common law by 1750, local interests retained significant power everywhere and used that power to preserve divergent, customary patterns of law that had arisen in the seventeenth century.
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This volume traces English efforts to govern the Chesapeake and New England colonies by imposing the common law. Although every colony received the common law by 1750, local interests retained significant power everywhere and used that power to preserve divergent, customary patterns of law that had arisen in the seventeenth century.
ISBN / EAN 9780190465056
Auteur Nelson, William E. (Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, New York University)
Editeur Oxford University Press Inc