The common law in colonial America. Volume III, The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750 / William E. Nelson.
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- 9780190465087
- Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750
- 349.7309032 23
- KF361 .N45 2016
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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