The common law in colonial America. Volume III, The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750 /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 17th century. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2016. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190465087 0190465085 9780190465063 0190465069 |