The Common Law in Colonial America

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The Common Law in Colonial America is written by William Edward Nelson and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190465085 (ISBN 10) and 9780190465087 (ISBN 13).

This volume traces English efforts to govern the Chesapeake and New England colonies by imposing the common law. Although every colony received the common law by 1750, local interests retained significant power everywhere and used that power to preserve divergent, customary patterns of law that had arisen in the 17th century.