English Common Law in the Early American Colonies - Scholar's Choice Edition
English Common Law in the Early American Colonies - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author: Paul Samuel Reinsch

Publisher: Scholar's Choice

Published: 2015-02-18

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781296260422

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English Common Law in the Early American Colonies (Classic Reprint)
English Common Law in the Early American Colonies (Classic Reprint)

Author: Paul Samuel Reinsch

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-03

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780260219695

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Excerpt from English Common Law in the Early American Colonies The accepted legal theory of this transfer is well known. It is clearly stated by Story in Van Ness v. Packard, 2 Peters, 144 The common law of England is not to be taken in all respects to be that of America. Our ancestors brought with them its general principles, and claimed it as their birth-right; but they brought with them and adopted only that portion which was applicable to their condition. This theory is universally adopted by our courts, and it has given them the important power of judging of the applicability of the principles of the common law to American conditions. According to this view, the common law was from the first looked upon by the colonists as a system of positive and subsidiary law, applying where not replaced by colonial enactments or by special custom suited to new conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

English Common Law in the Early American Colonies (1899)
English Common Law in the Early American Colonies (1899)

Author: Paul Samuel Reinsch

Publisher:

Published: 2008-06-01

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781436835510

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The Common Law in Colonial America
The Common Law in Colonial America

Author: William E. Nelson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-08-05

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0199716714

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Drawing on groundbreaking and overwhelmingly extensive research into local court records, The Common Law in Colonial America proposes a "new beginning" in the study of colonial legal history, as it charts the course of the common law in Early America, to reveal how the models of law that emerged differed drastically from that of the English common law. In this first volume, Nelson explores how the law of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia and Maryland--differed from the New England colonies--Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven, Plymouth, and Rhode Island--and looks at the differences between the colonial legal systems within the two regions, from their initial settlement until approximately 1660.

The Common Law in Colonial America
The Common Law in Colonial America

Author: William Edward Nelson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0190465050

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Présentation de l'éditeur : "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."