Essays in the history of early American law : edited with an introduction / by David H. Flaherty.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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 introduction / Julius Goebel, Jr. -- The rise of the New York bar : the legal career of William Livingston / Milton M. Klein -- 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.

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