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The creation of American common law, 1850-1880 : technology, politics, and the construction of citizenship /

This book is a comparative study of the American legal development in the mid-nineteenth century. Focusing on Illinois and Virginia, supported by observations from six additional states, the book traces the crucial formative moment in the development of an American system of common law in northern a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schweber, Howard H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • North and South
  • Illinois: "We were determined to have a rail-road"
  • "The memory of man runneth not to the contrary": cases involving damage to property
  • "Intelligent beings": cases involving injuries to persons
  • The North: Ohio, Vermont, and New York
  • Virginia in the 1850s: the last days of planter rule
  • The common law of antebellum Virginia: the preservation of status
  • Virginia's version of American common law: old wine in new bottles
  • The South: Georgia, North Carolina, and Kentucky
  • Legal change and social order.