Description - The Common Law in Colonial America by William E. Nelson
In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E. Nelson will show how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies, which were initially established in response to divergent political, economic, and religious initiatives, slowly converged until it became possible by the 1770s to imagine that all thirteen participated in a common American legal order, which diverged in its details but differed far more substantially
from English common law. Volume three, The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750, reveals how Virginia, which was founded to earn profit, and Massachusetts, which was founded for Puritan religious
ends, had both adopted the common law by the mid-eighteenth century and begun to converge toward a common American legal model. The law in the other New England colonies, Nelson argues, although it was distinctive in some respects, gravitated toward the Massachusetts model, while Maryland's law gravitated toward that of Virginia.
Buy The Common Law in Colonial America by William E. Nelson from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.
Other Editions - The Common Law in Colonial America by William E. Nelson
A Preview for this title is currently not available.
No Stock on Hand, Supplier Has No Due Date for Supply.
E Pluribus Unum: How the Common Law Helped Unify and Liberate Colonial America, 1607-1776
