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 arisen in the 17th century.

• | Author: William Edward Nelson
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: May 18, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0190465050
• | ISBN-13: 9780190465056