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The many legalities of early America / edited by Christopher L. Tomlins and Bruce H. Mann.
"Papers presented at the November 1996 conference."--Title page verso.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781469601106
- ISBN: 1469601109
- ISBN: 0807839086
- ISBN: 9780807839089
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 466 pages)
- Publisher: Chapel Hill ; Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2001]
- Copyright: ©2001
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Papers presented at the November 1996 conference. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction, Many legalities of colonization : a manifesto of destiny for early American legal history / Christopher Tomlins -- Discovery, grant, charter, conquest, or purchase : John Adams on the legal basis for English possession of North America / James Muldoon -- Salamanders and Sons of God : the culture appeal in early New England / Mary Sarah Bilder -- "Rigid and inclement" : origins of the Jamaica slave laws of the seventeenth century / David Barry Gaspar -- Legal fictions and the rule(s) of law : the Jeffersonian critique of common-law adjudication / David Thomas Konig -- "Justice will be done us" : Algonquian demands for reciprocity in the courts of European settlers / Katherine Hermes -- "Lest we go in search of relief to our lands and our nation" : customary justice and colonial law in the New Mexico borderlands, 1680-1821 / James F. Brooks -- Customary laws of marriage : legal pluralism, colonialism, and Narragansett Indian identity in eighteenth-century Rhode Island / Ann Marie Plane -- "Liberty to complaine" : servant petitions in Maryland, 1652-1797 / Christine Daniels. "As though I my self was pr[e]sent" : Virginia women with power of attorney / Linda L. Sturtz -- Women and the political culture of eighteenth-century Virginia : gender, property law, and voting rights / John G. Kolp and Terri L. Snyder -- Age of reason? : children, testimony, and consent in early America / Holly Brewer -- Was there a Calvinist type of patriarchy? : New Haven Colony reconsidered in the early modern context / Cornelia Hughes Dayton. Limits of authority : courts, ethnicity, and gender in the Middle Colonies, 1670-1710 / William M. Offutt, Jr. -- Farmers in court : Orange County, North Carolina, 1750-1776 / Richard Lyman Bushman -- Long road to Vidal : charity law and state formation in early America / A.G. Roeber -- Afterword, Death and transfiguration of early American legal law / Bruce H. Mann. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record; online resource viewed March 8, 2017. |
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| Subject: | Law > United States > History > 18th century > Congresses. Law > United States > History > 17th century > Congresses. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings. History. Conference papers and proceedings. Electronic books. |
