The Common Law in Colonial America
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The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume III: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750
By William E. NelsonVolume III: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750 William E. Nelson ... Decision of Law, Surry County Ct. 1673/74, in Eliza Timberlake Davis ed., ...
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The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume IV: Law and the Constitution on the Eve of Independence, 1735-1776
By William E. NelsonThe definitive study of church-state relations in colonial New England is William G. McLoughlin, New England Dissent, 1630–1833: The Baptists and the Separation of Church and State (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), ...
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The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume IV: Law and the Constitution on the Eve of Independence, 1735-1776
By William Edward NelsonMd. Ct. App. 1696, in Carroll T. Bond and Richard B. Morris eds., Proceedings of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, 1695–1729 (Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, 1933), 22. Ibid., 25. ... See, e.g., Keech's Lessee v.
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The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume II: The Middle Colonies and the Carolinas, 1660-1730
By William Edward NelsonAs 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 ...
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The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume I: The Chesapeake and New England 1607-1660
By William E. NelsonIn this first volume, Nelson explores how the law of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia and Maryland--differed from the New England colonies--Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven, Plymouth, and Rhode Island--and looks at the differences ...
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The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume III: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750
By William E. NelsonIn 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, ...
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The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume II: The Middle Colonies and the Carolinas, 1660-1730
By William E. NelsonAs 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 ...
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The Common Law in Colonial America: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750
By William Edward NelsonIn this four-volume series, the author shows how the legal systems of Britain's 13 North American colonies - initially established in response to divergent political, economic, and religious initiatives - slowly converged into a common ...
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The Common Law in Colonial America: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750
By William Edward NelsonThis volume traces English efforts to govern the Chesapeake and New England colonies by imposing the common law.
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The Common Law in Colonial America: Law and the constitution on the eve of independence, 1735-1776
By William Edward Nelson, NelsonAfter concluding that the mid-eighteenth-century colonial legal system usually functioned effectively, this text focuses on constitutional events leading to the American Revolution, showing how lawyers used ideology in the interests of ...
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The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume I: The Chesapeake and New England 1607-1660
By William E. NelsonIn this first volume, Nelson explores how the law of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia and Maryland--differed from the New England colonies--Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven, Plymouth, and Rhode Island--and looks at the differences ...
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The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume IV: Law and the Constitution on the Eve of Independence, 1735-1776
By William E. NelsonVolume IV: Law and the Constitution on the Eve of Independence, 1735-1776 William E. Nelson. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16 ... England Dissent, 1630–1833: The 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Notes to pages 47–52 173.
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The Common Law in Colonial America: The middle colonies and the Carolinas, 1660-1730. Volume II
By William Edward NelsonIn this volume, Nelson 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...