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Prairie justice : a history of Illinois courts under French, English & American law
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"A concise legal history of Illinois, Prairie Justice covers the French, British, early-American, and Illinois-statehood periods to 1900. It illustrates the changes over time in the different judic...
"A concise legal history of Illinois, Prairie Justice covers the French, British, early-American, and Illinois-statehood periods to 1900. It illustrates the changes over time in the different judicial systems, culminating in the establishment of a unique body of Illinois law"--
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- Creator
- Roger L Severns ; edited by John A Lupton
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- xx, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780809333707, 9780809333691, 0809333694, 0809333708, 1322639892
- OCLC
- ocn872620804, ocn903510047, ocn900346900
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Whose Home Is in the Wilderness" -- Law and Anarchy, Virginia County, Federal Territory -- The Coming of the Common Law -- A Frontier Court -- Lawyers and Law Courts -- Law and Politics -- Giants in the Prairie -- Trails of the Circuit Riders -- The Coming of Age -- Epilogue