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The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume III: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750 Nelson, William E. (Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, New York University)
The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume III: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750
Nelson, William E. (Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, New York University)
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.
240 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 18, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9780190465056 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 243 × 165 × 18 mm · 635 g |
| Language | English |