The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume III: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750

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William E. Nelson (Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, New York University)

The Common Law in Colonial America

Volume III: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750

William E. Nelson (Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, New York University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
07 June 2016

Common law; Legal history; Legal system: general

In 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, economic, and religious initiatives, slowly converged until it became possible by the 1770s to imagine that all thirteen participated in a common American legal order, which diverged in its details but differed far more substantially from English common law. Volume three, The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750, reveals how Virginia, which was founded to earn profit, and Massachusetts, which was founded for Puritan religious ends, had both adopted the common law by the mid-eighteenth century and begun to converge toward a common American legal model.

The law in the other New England colonies, Nelson argues, although it was distinctive in some respects, gravitated toward the Massachusetts model, while Maryland's law gravitated toward that of Virginia.

By: William E. Nelson (Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History New York University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 243mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9780190465056
ISBN 10: 0190465050
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 07 June 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

William E. Nelson, is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, at New York University.

Reviews for The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume III: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750

This volume continues a multi-volume history of the common law in America by our greatest authority on the foundations of the American legal system. Like his other work, it is the product of unmatched meticulous research into the archival record of legal institutions as they affected the lives of ordinary Americans a male and female, white and black, powerful and weak. It is as much a human study as it is an institutional one, and it takes its well-earned place as a classic in legal history. * David Thomas Konig, Professor of Law at Washington University *