Contributor
Tomlins, Christopher L., 1951-
Imprint:Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Descriptionix, 466 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Papers presented at the November 1996 conference.
Note:Includes index.
Note: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 of 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, 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. - The Lorig Road to Vidal: Charity Law and State Formation in Early America / A. G. Roeber - Death and Transfiguration of Early American Legal History / Bruce H. Mann.
