Collection Of American Colonial Laws
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| Author | : Peter Charles Hoffer |
| Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2019-11-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1421434598 |
An essential, rigorous, and lively introduction to the beginnings of American law. How did American colonists transform British law into their own? What were the colonies' first legal institutions, and who served in them? And why did the early Americans develop a passion for litigation that continues to this day? In Law and People in Colonial America, Peter Charles Hoffer tells the story of early American law from its beginnings on the British mainland to its maturation during the crisis of the American Revolution. For the men and women of colonial America, Hoffer explains, law was a pervasive influence in everyday life. Because it was their law, the colonists continually adapted it to fit changing circumstances. They also developed a sense of legalism that influenced virtually all social, economic, and political relationships. This sense of intimacy with the law, Hoffer argues, assumed a transforming power in times of crisis. In the midst of a war for independence, American revolutionaries used their intimacy with the law to explain how their rebellion could be lawful, while legislators wrote republican constitutions that would endure for centuries. Today the role of law in American life is more pervasive than ever. And because our system of law involves a continuing dialogue between past and present, interpreting the meaning of precedent and of past legislation, the study of legal history is a vital part of every citizen's basic education. Taking advantage of rich new scholarship that goes beyond traditional approaches to view slavery as a fundamental cultural and social institution as well as an economic one, this second edition includes an extensive, entirely new chapter on colonial and revolutionary-era slave law. Law and People in Colonial America is a lively introduction to early American law. It makes for essential reading.
| Author | : William Edward Nelson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0199937753 |
William E. Nelson's first volume of the four-volume The Common Law of Colonial America (2008) established a new benchmark for study of colonial era legal history. Drawing from both a rich archival base and existing scholarship on the topic, the first volume demonstrated how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies-each of which had unique economies, political structures, and religious institutions -slowly converged into a common law order that differed substantially from English common law. The first volume focused on how the legal systems of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia and Maryland--contrasted with those of the New England colonies and traced these dissimilarities from the initial settlement of America until approximately 1660. In this new volume, Nelson brings the discussion forward, covering the years from 1660, which saw the Restoration of the British monarchy, to 1730. In particular, he analyzes the impact that an increasingly powerful British government had on the evolution of the common law in the New World. As the reach of the Crown extended, Britain imposed far more restrictions than before on the new colonies it had chartered in the Carolinas and the middle Atlantic region. The government's intent was to ensure that colonies' laws would align more tightly with British law. Nelson examines how the newfound coherence in British colonial policy led these new colonies to develop common law systems that corresponded more closely with one another, eliminating much of the variation that socio-economic differences had created in the earliest colonies. As this volume reveals, these trends in governance ultimately resulted in a tension between top-down pressures from Britain for a more uniform system of laws and bottom-up pressures from colonists to develop their own common law norms and preserve their own distinctive societies. Authoritative and deeply researched, the volumes in The Common Law of Colonial America will become the foundational resource for anyone interested the history of American law before the Revolution.
| Author | : Donald S. Lutz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Presents 80 documents selected to reflect Eric Voegelin's theory that in Western civilization basic political symbolizations tend to be variants of the original symbolization of Judeo-Christian religious tradition. These documents demonstrate the continuity of symbols preceding the writing of the Constitution and all contain a number of basic symbols such as: a constitution as higher law, popular sovereignty, legislative supremacy, the deliberative process, and a virtuous people. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Claire Priest |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2022-12-20 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0691241724 |
How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the republic. In this major new history of early America, Claire Priest describes how the British Parliament departed from the customary ways that English law protected land and inheritance, enacting laws for the colonies that privileged creditors by defining land and slaves as commodities available to satisfy debts. Colonial governments, in turn, created local legal institutions that enabled people to further leverage their assets to obtain credit. Priest shows how loans backed with slaves as property fueled slavery from the colonial era through the Civil War, and that increased access to credit was key to the explosive growth of capitalism in nineteenth-century America. Credit Nation presents a new vision of American economic history, one where credit markets and liquidity were prioritized from the outset, where property rights and slaves became commodities for creditors' claims, and where legal institutions played a critical role in the Stamp Act crisis and other political episodes of the founding period.
| Author | : Elizabeth Gaspar Brown |
| Publisher | : William s Hein & Company |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780899413211 |
In consultation with William Wirt Blume. Foreword by Allen F. Smith. "A study of the extent & content of use of such statutes." Bibliographic Reference: Miller & Schwartz, Recommended Publications for Legal Research. "B" Rated 1984 93
| Author | : Morris L. Cohen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : |
An electronic version of the six-volume set, from which the introduction and other front-matter have been included for general-information consultation. Indexes have been supplanted by the searching capablities of Folio.
| Author | : Willis Mason West |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 92 |
| Release | : 1905 |
| Genre | : United States |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Hugh Amory |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 676 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521482561 |
Volume 1 of A History of the Book in America, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, encompasses the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is organized around three major themes: the persisting colonial relationship between European settlements and the Old World; the gradual emergence of a pluralistic book trade that differentiated printers from booksellers; and the transition from a 'culture of the Word', organized around an understanding of print as a vehicle of the sacred, to the culture of republicanism, epitomized by Benjamin Franklin, and culminating in the uses of print during the Revolutionary era. The volume will also describe nascent forms of literary and learned culture (including the circulation of manuscripts), literacy and censorship, orality, and the efforts by Europeans to introduce written literary to Native Americans and African Americans.
| Author | : United States. Department of Justice. Library |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1202 |
| Release | : 1904 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Henry Farr De Puy |
| Publisher | : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Indians of North America |
| ISBN | : 1584771631 |
DePuy, Henry F. A Bibliography of the English Colonial Treaties with the American Indians. New York: The Lenox Club, 1917. [108] pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-163-1. Cloth. $50. * Many of the records of the various treaties with the Indians exist only in manuscript. This bibliography locates and describes fifty treaties that were separately printed in small print quantities and thus are exceedingly rare. For each treaty De Puy provides full collation, a brief synopsis of the contents, an illustration, and the location of copies in principal libraries and private collections. See Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies 352.
