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Law -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
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Law -- United States -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses.
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1 online resource (ix, 466 pages) |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
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Papers presented at the November 1996 conference. |
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Introduction, Many legalities of colonization : a manifesto of destiny for early American legal history / Christopher Tomlins -- 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. |
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"As though I my self was pr[e]sent" : Virginia women with power of attorney / Linda L. Sturtz -- 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. |
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Limits of authority : courts, ethnicity, and gender in the Middle Colonies, 1670-1710 / William M. Offutt, Jr. -- 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. |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Alt author |
Tomlins, Christopher L., 1951- editor.
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Mann, Bruce H., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781469601106 (electronic bk.) |
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1469601109 (electronic bk.) |
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0807826324 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780807826324 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0807849642 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780807849644 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0807839086 |
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9780807839089 |
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