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Author Nelson, William E. (William Edward), 1940- author.

Title The common law in colonial America. Volume II, The middle colonies and the Carolinas, 1660-1730 / William E. Nelson
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Dutch and Puritan Law in New Netherland; THE DUTCH LEGAL SYSTEM OF NEW NETHERLAND; "RUDE, UNTECHNICAL" LAW IN THE EARLY ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS; 2. New York: The Persistence of Dutch and Puritan Law; THE PERSISTENCE OF DUTCH LAW ALONG THE UPPER HUDSON; NEW ENGLAND LAW ON THE ISLANDS AND IN WESTCHESTER; 3. New York: The Triumph of the Common Law; THE EMERGENCE OF COMMON LAW IN NEW YORK CITY; THE TRIUMPH OF COMMON LAW IN THE COLONY AT LARGE; 4. Common Law in the City-State of Charleston, South Carolina; THE SUCCESS AND FAILURE OF ASHLEY'S PLANS
CREATING LAWTHE END OF THE PROPRIETARY REGIME AND THE BEGINNING OF ROYAL GOVERNMENT; 5. Politicizing the Courts and Undermining the Law in North Carolina; THE COLONY ON THE ALBEMARLE SOUND; THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM'S COLLAPSE; 6. Pennsylvania: Government by Judiciary; THE IMMEDIATE ADOPTION OF THE COMMON LAW; THE DISEMPOWERMENT OF JURIES; LAW, ORDER, AND STABILITY; EXPLAINING HEGEMONY; 7. Delaware and New Jersey: A Microcosm of the Colonial North; DELAWARE; EAST JERSEY; WEST JERSEY; NEW JERSEY; 8. Conclusion: The Common Law as Mechanism of Governance; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K
LM; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary In 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 Crown extended Britain imposed far more restrictions than before on the new colonies it had chartered in the Carolinas and the Middle Atlantic region. The government's intent was to ensure that colonies' laws would align more tightly with British law
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on Jan. 7, 2013)
Subject Law -- Middle Atlantic States -- History
Law -- North Carolina -- History
Law -- South Carolina -- History
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Law
Law - U.S.
Law, Politics & Government.
Law - U.S. - General.
SUBJECT Middle Atlantic States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085009
North Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092484
South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125555
Subject Middle Atlantic States
North Carolina
South Carolina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199301539
0199301530
0199937761
9780199937769