Law and people in colonial America / by Peter Charles Hoffer.
1998
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Author
Title
Law and people in colonial America / by Peter Charles Hoffer.
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Call Number
KF361 .H63 1998
Edition
Revised edition.
ISBN
0801858224 (alk. paper)
080185816X (pbk. : alk. paper)
080185816X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xvii, 193 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)37418292
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-185) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
Ch. 1
"That the Said Statutes, Lawes, and Ordinances May Be as Neere as Conveniently May, Agreeable to the Forme of the Lawes and Pollicy of England"
1
Ch. 2
"And to the End that All Laws Prepared by the Governour and Provincial Council Aforesaid, May Yet Have the More Full Concurrence of the Free-Men of the Province"
27
Ch. 3
"If I Am Become Their Son, They Must Act the Part of a Father"
50
Ch. 4
"These Dirty and Ridiculous Litigations Have Been Multiplied in This Town, Till the Very Earth Groans and the Stones Cry Out"
76
Ch. 5
"Just so th' Unletter'd Blockheads of the Robe; (Than Whom no Greater Monsters on the Globe); Their Wire-Drawn, Incoherent, Jargon Spin, Or Lug a Point by Head and Shoulders In"
92
Ch. 6
"On What Principles, Then, on What Motives of Action, Can We Depend for the Security of our Liberties, of our Properties...of Life Itself?"
127
Conclusion
154
Notes
157
A Bibliographic Essay
165
Index
187