The common law in colonial America / William E. Nelson.
Publisher's description: 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 s...
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g VOLUME 1. |t THE CHESAPEAKE AND NEW ENGLAND, 1607-1660: |t Law in the Jamestown settlement -- |t Private property and the free market in Virginia, 1619-1660 -- |t Puritan law in the Bay Colony -- |t Popular power and the rule of law in Massachusetts -- |t The New England satellites -- |t The battle for Maryland -- |t The future of American law. |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g VOLUME 2. |t THE MIDDLE COLONIES AND THE CAROLINAS, 1660-1730: |t The Dutch and Puritan law in New Netherland -- |t New York : the persistence of Dutch and Puritan law -- |t New York : the triumph of the common law -- |t Common law in the city-state of Charleston, South Carolina -- |t Politicizing the courts and undermining the law in North Carolina -- |t Pennsylvania : government by judiciary -- |t Delaware and New Jersey : a microcosm of the colonial North -- |t The common law as mechanism of governance. |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g VOLUME 3. |t THE CHESAPEAKE AND NEW ENGLAND, 1660-1750: |t Maryland and the shift to Protestantism -- |t The weakness of the law in post-Restoration Virginia -- |t Strengthening Virginia's legal order -- |t Center and periphery : the localization of power in colonial Virginia -- |t The substance of Virginia law -- |t The persistence of Puritan law in Massachusetts, 1660-85 -- |t The establishment of Royal government and continued reception of the common law -- |t The continued preservation of Puritan law -- |t The New England satellites : Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, 1660-1750 -- |t The success of British imperial policy. |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g VOLUME 4. |t LAW AND THE CONSTITUTION ON THE EVE OF INDEPENDENCE, 1735-1776: |t Common law constitutionalism -- |t Localist constitutionalism -- |t Uncontested legal practices -- |t The well-functioning empire of the mid-eighteenth century -- |t Government failure in two colonies -- |t Weakening the bonds of empire -- |t Testing the bonds of empire -- |t Terminating the ties of empire -- |t Legal and constitutional legacies. |
| 520 | |a Publisher's description: 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. He reveals how Virginians' zeal for profit led to a harsh legal framework that efficiently squeezed payment out of debtors and labor out of servants; whereas the laws of Massachusetts were primarily concerned with the preservation of local autonomy and the moral values of family-centered farming communities. The law in the other New England colonies, Nelson argues, gravitated towards the Massachusetts model, while Maryland's law, gravitated toward that of Virginia. Comprehensive, authoritative, and extensively researched, The Common Law in Colonial America, Volume 1: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607-1660 is the definitive resource on the beginnings of the common law and its evolution during this vibrant era in America's history. | ||
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