"Esteemed Bookes of Lawe" and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia

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"Esteemed Bookes of Lawe" and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia is written by Warren M. Billings and published by University of Virginia Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0813939402 (ISBN 10) and 9780813939407 (ISBN 13).

Virginia men of law constituted one of the first learned professions in colonial America, and Virginia legal culture had an important and lasting impact on American political institutions and jurisprudence. Exploring the book collections of these Virginians therefore offers insight into the history of the book and the intellectual history of early America. It also addresses essential questions of how English culture migrated to the American colonies and was transformed into a distinctive American culture. Focusing on the law books that colonial Virginians acquired, how they used them, and how they eventually produced a native-grown legal literature, this collection explores the law and intellectual culture of the Commonwealth and reveals the origins of a distinctively Virginian legal literature. The contributors argue that understanding the development of early Virginia legal history—as shown through these book collections—not only illuminates important aspects of Virginia’s history and culture; it also underlies a thorough understanding of colonial and revolutionary American history and culture.