The great Yazoo lands sale : the case of Fletcher v. Peck /

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"In 1795, the Georgia legislature sold the state's western lands (present-day Alabama and Mississippi) to four private land companies. A year later, amid revelations of bribery, a newly elected legislature revoked the sale. This book tells the story of how the great Yazoo lands sale gave r...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hobson, Charles F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2016.
Series:Landmark law cases & American society.
Subjects:
Peck, John, > of Newton, in the District of Massachusetts > Trials, litigation, etc.
Fletcher, Robert, > of Amherst, in the District of New-Hampshire > Trials, litigation, etc.
Fletcher, Robert, > of Amherst, in the District of New-Hampshire.
Peck, John, > of Newton, in the District of Massachusetts.
New England Mississippi Land Company > Trials, litigation, etc.
Georgia Mississippi Company > Trials, litigation, etc.
Georgia Mississippi Company.
New England Mississippi Land Company.
1700-1899
Public land sales > Georgia > History > 18th century.
Contracts > United States > History > 19th century.
Yazoo Fraud, 1795.
Terres publiques > Vente > Géorgie (État) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Contrats > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
LAW > Constitutional.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > National.
Contracts.
Public land sales.
Georgia.
United States.
Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. 87 (1810)
History.
Trials, litigation, etc.
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