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The Creation of American Common Law, 1850-1880
Technology, Politics, and the Construction of Citizenship
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521158183
Veröffentl:
2010
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
11.10.2010
Seiten:
306
Autor:
Howard Schweber
Gewicht:
500 g
Format:
229x152x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book is a comparative study of the American legal development in the mid-nineteenth century.
Part I: 1. Introduction; Part II: 1. North and South; 2. Illinois. 'We were determined to have a rail-road'; 3. 'The memory of man runneth not to the contrary': cases involving damage to property; 4. 'Intelligent beings': cases involving injuries to persons; 5. The North: Ohio, Vermont, and New York; 6. Virginia in the 1850s: the last days of planter rule; 7. The Common Law of Antebellum Virginia: old wine in new bottles; 8. Virginia's version of American Common Law: old wine in new bottles; 9. The South: Georgia, North Carolina, and Kentucky; 10. Legal change and social order.