Common law in colonial america, the: volume iii: the chesapeake and new england, 1660-1750
Auteur :
Nelson, William E.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780190465056
Date de publication :
9 juin 2016
Dimensions :
23,6 x 15,5 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
635 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This volume traces English efforts to govern the Chesapeake and New England colonies by imposing the common law. Although every colony received the common law by 1750, local interests retained significant power everywhere and used that power to preserve divergent, customary patterns of law that had arisen in the seventeenth century.