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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schweber, Howard H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Common law > United States > History > 19th century.
Common law > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LAW > Common.
Common law
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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