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Title:

The many legalities of early America / edited by Christopher L. Tomlins and Bruce H. Mann.

Publisher:

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and CultureWilliamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

ix, 466 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Law--United States--History--18th century.--Congresses.
Law--United States--History--17th century.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Tomlins, Christopher L., 1951-
Mann, Bruce H.

Notes:

Papers presented at the November 1996 conference. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction, "Liberty to complaine" : servant petitions in Maryland, 1652-1797 / Christine Daniels. Discovery, grant, charter, conquest, or purchase : John Adams on the legal basis for English possession of North America / James Muldoon -- Salamanders and Sons of God : the culture appeal in early New England / Mary Sarah Bilder -- "Rigid and inclement" : origins of the Jamaica slave laws of the seventeenth century / David Barry Gaspar -- Legal fictions and the rule(s) of law : the Jeffersonian critique of common-law adjudication / David Thomas Konig -- "Justice will be done us" : Algonquian demands for reciprocity in the courts of European settlers / Katherine Hermes -- "Lest we go in search of relief to our lands and our nation" : customary justice and colonial law in the New Mexico borderlands, 1680-1821 / James F. Brooks -- Customary laws of marriage : legal pluralism, colonialism, and Narragansett Indian identity in eighteenth-century Rhode Island / Ann Marie Plane -- "Liberty to complaine" : servant petitions in Maryland, 1652-1797 / Christine Daniels.
Was there a Calvinist type of patriarchy? : New Haven Colony reconsidered in the early modern context / Cornelia Hughes Dayton. Women and the political culture of eighteenth-century Virginia : gender, property law, and voting rights / John G. Kolp and Terri L. Snyder -- Age of reason? : children, testimony, and consent in early America / Holly Brewer -- Was there a Calvinist type of patriarchy? : New Haven Colony reconsidered in the early modern context / Cornelia Hughes Dayton.
Death and transfiguration of early American legal law / Bruce H. Mann. Farmers in court : Orange County, North Carolina, 1750-1776 / Richard Lyman Bushman -- Long road to Vidal : charity law and state formation in early America / A.G. Roeber -- Afterword, Death and transfiguration of early American legal law / Bruce H. Mann.

ISBN:

9780807849644 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807849642 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807826324 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807826324 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45172115

LCCN:

00048930

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)