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The many legalities of early America
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- edited by Christopher L. Tomlins and Bruce H. Mann
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- English
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- Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2001]
- ©2001
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- ix, 466 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0807839086, 0807849642, 9798890872722, 0807826324, 9780807849644, 9781469601106, 1469601109, 9780807826324, 9780807839089
- OCLC
- ocm45172115, on1080551909
- Papers presented at the November 1996 conference.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
- "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
- 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