The Common Law in Colonial America
Volume I: The Chesapeake and New England 1607-1660
1st Edition
Published on 5. August 2008
211 pages
978-0-19-971671-5 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "new beginning" in the study of colonial legal history, as it charts the course of the common law in Early America, to reveal how the models of law that emerged differed drastically from that of the English common law. In this first volume, Nelson explores how the law of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia and Maryland--differed from the New England colonies--Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven, Plymouth, and Rhode Island--and looks at the differences between the colonial legal systems within the two regions, from their initial settlement until approximately 1660.
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The Common Law of Colonial America
Volume I: The Chesapeake and New England 1607-1660
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 Law in the Jamestown Settlement
- 2 Private Property and the Free Market in Virginia, 1619-1660
- 3 Puritan Law in the Bay Colony
- 4 Popular Power and the Rule of Law in Massachusetts
- 5 The New England Satellites
- 6 The Battle for Maryland
- 7 Conclusion: The Future of American Law
- NOTES
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
