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.

Virginia's Eastern Shore
Virginia's Eastern Shore

Author: Ralph T. Whitelaw

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 778

ISBN-13:

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"The result of the research is a story of the land and its owners, rather than the usual chronological history of its economic and social development, but the latter is inevitably brought out in any account of the people whose lives influenced this development." -- Pref.