Law and people in colonial America / by Peter Charles Hoffer.
1992
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Author
Title
Law and people in colonial America / by Peter Charles Hoffer.
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1992]
Copyright
©1992
Call Number
KF361 .H63 1992
ISBN
0801843065 (alk. paper)
0801843073 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801843073 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xv, 156 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)24142639
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-150) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
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"
25
Ch. 3
"These Dirty and Ridiculous Litigations Have Been Multiplied in this Town, Till the Very Earth Groans and the Stones Cry Out"
47
Ch. 4
"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"
62
Ch. 5
"On What Principles, Then, on What Motives of Action, Can We Depend for the Security of our Liberties, of our Properties. . . of Life Itself?"
96
Conclusion
122
Notes
125
A Bibliographic Essay
133
Index
151