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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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Titlepage; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. Maryland and the Shift to Protestantism ; Maryland's Unique Judicial System ; The Neutrality of Judges ; The Law-. Finding Power of Juries ; The Substance of Maryland's Law ; Commercial Litigation.
- Debt Collection Land Law ; The Law of Slavery and Servitude ; Administrative Law ; Criminal Law ; Summary ; 2. The Weakness of the Law in Post-. Restoration Virginia ; 3. Strengthening Virginia's Legal Order ; The Switch from White to Black Labor ; Patronage and Noblesse Oblige.
- Law and Religion Reception of the Common Law ; Judge and Jury ; 4. Center and Periphery: The Localization of Power in Colonial Virginia ; The Jurisdiction of County Courts ; The Structure of Political Power ; The Structure of Legal Knowledge ; The Independence of County Courts.
- 5. The Substance of Virginia Law Capital and Debt ; Land Law ; The Law of Slavery ; 6. The Persistence of Puritan Law in Massachusetts, 1660-.85 ; Reception of the Common Law ; Law and Religion ; Law and Morality ; Morality and Regulation of the Economy.
- Morality as a Restraint on Power Servants and Laborers ; Strangers ; Married Women ; Summary ; 7. The Establishment of Royal Government and Continued Reception of the Common Law ; Preserving the Puritan Structure of Institutions ; Continued Reception of the Common Law.