Remaking custom : law and identity in the early American Republic / Ellen Holmes Pearson.
2011
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Title
Remaking custom : law and identity in the early American Republic / Ellen Holmes Pearson.
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Call Number
KF366 .P43 2011
ISBN
9780813930787 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813930782 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813930930 (e-book)
0813930936 (e-book)
0813930782 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813930930 (e-book)
0813930936 (e-book)
Description
xi, 251 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)647213075
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-244) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
1.
America's Common Law: Custom, Choice, and History Lessons
11
2.
American Constitutions and American Character
31
3.
Property Acquisition and Inheritance
74
4.
The Question of Slavery in the New Republic
113
5.
Public Lands, Expansion, and the Native Americans
141
6.
Custom, the Written Law, and American Legal Treatises
172
Conclusion
195
Notes
201
Bibliography
227
Index
245