Essays in the history of early American law : edited with an introduction /
by David H. Flaherty.
- Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture of Williamsburg, Virginia, by The University of North Carolina Press 1969.
- 1 online resource (x, 534 pages).
Includes bibliographies and index.
An introduction of early American legal history / Law and colonial society / Colonial courts and the common law / King's law and local custom in seventeenth century New England / The legal heritage of Plymouth colony / Massachusetts and the common law : the Declaration of 1646 / The laws and liberties of 1648 / The spread of Massachusetts Law in the seventeenth century / The Suffolk County Court, 1671-1680 / The beginnings of partible inheritance in the American colonies / The courts and the law in colonial New York / Administrative control of the courts of the American plantations / The influence of colonial conditions as illustrated in the Connecticut intestacy law / "Law enforcement in colonial New York :" and introduction / The rise of the New York bar : the legal career of William Livingston / Legalism versus revolutionary doctrine in New England / The process of outlawry in New York : a study of the selective reception of English law / Thomas Jefferson and Blackstone's commentaries / Delaware Cases, 1792-1800 / David H. Flaherty -- George L. Haskins -- Zechariah Chafee, Jr. -- Julius Goebel, Jr. -- George L. Haskins -- Richard B. Morris -- Thorp L. Wolford -- George L. Haskins and Samuel E. Ewing -- George E. Woodbine -- George L. Haskins -- Julius Goebel, Jr. -- Joseph H. Smith -- Charles McLean Andrews -- Julius Goebel, Jr. -- Milton M. Klein -- Richard B. Morris -- Mark DeWolfe Howe -- Julius S. Waterman -- Zechariah Chafee, Jr.
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