The creation of American common law, 1850-1880 [electronic resource] : technology, politics, and the construction of citizenship / Howard Schweber.
By: Schweber, Howard H.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: viii, 296 p.Subject(s): Common law -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Customary law -- United States -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-292) and index.
Introduction -- North and South -- Illinois: "We were determined to have a rail-road" -- "The memory of man runneth not to the contrary": cases involving damage to property -- "Intelligent beings": cases involving injuries to persons -- The North: Ohio, Vermont, and New York -- Virginia in the 1850s: the last days of planter rule -- The common law of antebellum Virginia: the preservation of status -- Virginia's version of American common law: old wine in new bottles -- The South: Georgia, North Carolina, and Kentucky -- Legal change and social order.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2006. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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