The common law in colonial America
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The common law in colonial America
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The work The common law in colonial America represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- The common law in colonial America
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- William E. Nelson
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- eng
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- "William E. Nelson here proposes a new beginning in the study of colonial legal history. Examining all archival legal material for the period 1607-1776 and synthesizing existing scholarship in a four-volume series, 'The Common Law in Colonial America' shows how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies - initially established in response to divergent political, economic, and religious initiatives - slowly converged into a common American legal order that differed substantially from English common law. Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly in-depth research into local court records and statutes, the first volume explores how the law of the Chesapeake colonies - Virginia and Maryland - diverged sharply from the New England colonies - Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven, Plymouth, and Rhode Island - and traces the roots of these dissimilarities from their initial settlement until approximately 1660. Nelson pointedly examines the disparate motives of the legal systems in the respective colonies as they dealt with religion, price and labor regulations, crimes, public morals, the status of women, and the enforcement of contractual obligations."--Provided by publisher
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- non fiction
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- bibliography
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