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Essays in the history of early American law.

Title
Essays in the history of early American law. Edited with an introd. by David H. Flaherty.
Author
Flaherty, David H.
Publication
Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture of Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press [1969]

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Additional Authors
Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Description
x, 534 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Law > United States > History
  • United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 276-277. Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents
An introduction of early American legal history / David H. Flaherty -- Law and colonial society / George L. Haskins -- Colonial courts and the common law / Zechariah Chafee, Jr. -- King's law and local custom in seventeenth century New England / Julius Goebel, Jr. -- The legal heritage of Plymouth colony / George L. Haskins -- Massachusetts and the common law : the Declaration of 1646 / Richard B. Morris -- The laws and liberties of 1648 / Thorp L. Wolford -- The spread of Massachusetts Law in the seventeenth century / George L. Haskins and Samuel E. Ewing -- The Suffolk County Court, 1671-1680 / George E. Woodbine -- The beginnings of partible inheritance in the American colonies / George L. Haskins -- The courts and the law in colonial New York / Julius Goebel, Jr. -- Administrative control of the courts of the American plantations / Joseph H. Smith -- The influence of colonial conditions as illustrated in the Connecticut intestacy law / Charles McLean Andrews -- "Law enforcement in colonial New York :" and introductions / Julius Goebel, Jr. -- The rise of the New York Bar : the legal career of William Livingston / Milton M. Kein -- Legalism versus revolutionary doctrine in New England / Richard B. Morris -- The process of outlawry in New York : a study of the selective reception of English law / Mark DeWolfe Howe -- Thomas Jefferson and Blackstone's commentaries / Julius S. Waterman -- Delaware Cases, 1792-1800 / Zechariah Chafee, Jr.
Call Number
E-13 6366
LCCN
78080020 //r922
OCLC
19322
Author
Flaherty, David H. Compiler
Title
Essays in the history of early American law. Edited with an introd. by David H. Flaherty.
Imprint
Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture of Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press [1969]
Bibliography
Bibliography: p. 276-277. Bibliographical footnotes.
Added Author
Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Research Call Number
E-13 6366
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