Author: Paul Samuel ReinschPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584774878
Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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English Common Law in the Early American Colonies
Author: Paul Samuel ReinschPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584774878
Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Colonial Laws and Courts
Author: William BurgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Law and People in Colonial America
Author: Peter Charles HofferPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801858161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
For the men and women of colonial America, Peter Hoffer explains, law was a pervasive influence in everyday life. Because it was their law, the colonists continually adapted it to fit changing circumstances. They also developed a sense of legalism that influenced virtually all social, economic, and political relationships. This sense of intimacy with the law, Hoffer argues, assumed a transforming power in times of crisis. In the midst of a war of independence, American revolutionaries labored to explain how their rebellion could be lawful, while legislators wrote republican constitutions that would endure for centuries. Fully updated to take account of recent scholarship, this revised edition also offers a fresh look at the legal experiences of American Indians, Spaniard, and the French as people on the edges of English settlement. How did English law deal with neighboring societies? How does this posture help up to understand English law and the changes the New World forced upon it? How did non-English-speaking people view English law? Law and People in Colonial America provides a rigorous and lively introduction to early American law. It makes for essential reading.
A Summary of Colonial Law, the Practice of the Court of Appeals from the Plantations, and of the Laws and Their Administration in All the Colonies
Author: Charles ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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English Common Law in the Early American Colonies
Author: Paul Samuel ReinschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Colonial Laws and Courts: With a Sketch of the Legal Systems of the World and Tables of Conditions of Appeal to the Privy Council
Author: William BurgePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021751485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book serves as an informative guide to the legal systems of the world, with a particular emphasis on colonial laws and courts. William Burge draws parallels between different legal systems and outlines the factors that shape them. He also provides readers with an overview of the British Privy Council, which served as the highest court of appeal for British Colonies. Burge's insights are invaluable in understanding how legal systems developed in different parts of the world. This book is recommended for law students, lawyers, and anyone interested in the history of the legal profession. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Colonial Laws and Courts; with a Sketch of the Legal Systems of the World and Tables of Conditions of Appeal to the Privy Council
Author: William BurgePublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230179711
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...in the same capacities as in the subsequent case, whether they were similarly ranged, as regards the point in dispute, as plaintiffs and defendants in the two cases or not (I); (4) if the decision was made by a Court having co-equal jurisdiction with the Court trying the subsequent case, both as regards the pecuniary limit of its jurisdiction and as to the subject-matter of the case, to try it with conclusive effect (to); and (5) if the matter was heard and finally decided () by such Court, --the decision being one tending to and forming a necessary element of the decree, whether it was expressly set out therein or not, and being unalterable by such Court, except on review. The rule may be stated still more concisely in the following terms: --An adjudication, to be res judicata, must be "secundum allegata et probata," and, when it conforms to this principle, its objective elements, as embodied in the final concrete command, will form a conclusive bond of relation between the parties. The means or process by which it is arrived at may be erroneous; as, for instance, when the decision turns on the truth of a certain deposition or the construction of a certain law, the evidence may have been appreciated wrongly, or the law misapplied. In another case the same evidence may be weighed differently and the same law interpreted otherwise; but the individual constitution of a right and duty, derived from such materials, as ascertained by a Judge exercising final jurisdiction, will practically create and settle the precise relation as found and laid down by him. Though the abstract subjective view may be questioned, the concrete objective command must thereafter, in any further litigation, be accepted as final by the parties and their...
A Summary of Colonial Law, the Practice of the Court of Appeals from the Plantations, and of the Laws and Their Administration in All the Colonies: Wi
Author: Charles ClarkPublisher:
ISBN: 9781375615327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Colonial Laws and Courts
Author: William BurgePublisher:
ISBN: 9781330676806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Excerpt from Colonial Laws and Courts: With a Sketch of the Legal Systems of the World and Tables of Conditions of Appeal to the Privy Council This book, which also forms the introductory volume of the new edition of Surges Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws, is now issued separately, as there seems reason to expect that it, will have interest for a wider circle than the remainder of that work. The Editors desire to acknowledge the valuable co-operation of their collaborators who have brought special knowledge to bear on the different legal systems in force in the British dominions: the late Dr. H. M. Birdwood (whose loss is deeply deplored by his colleagues), who wrote the chapters on the laws and courts of the Empire of India; Dr. Bisschop, who contributed the chapter on Eoman-Dutch law; Mr. James Macdonald, who assisted with the law of Scotland, Professor J. S. Walton with the law of Quebec, Professor McGregor Young and Professor A. H. E. Lefroy with the law of the other provinces of the Dominion of Canada, and Mr. J. E. Hogg with the Australian law. The Editors have also to express their indebtedness to many gentlemen for advice and assistance in the revision of portions of this volume dealing with the legal systems of particular British Colonies and States. Among these we may venture to mention Sir Joseph Hutchinson, Chief Justice of Ceylon; Sir Francis Piggott, Chief Justice of Hong Kong; Sir Lionel Cox, sometime Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements; his Honour Judge Stevenson Moore, First Deemster of the Isle of Man; Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, K.C.S.I., Member of the Council of India; Sir Eoland Wilson, Bart., formerly Eeader of Indian Law at Cambridge University; Sir Eaymond West, K.C.I.E., Eeader of Indian Law at Cambridge University, formerly Judge of the High Court of Bombay; Sir John Jardine, M.P., K.C.I.E., formerly Judge of the High Court of Bombay; Mr. F.G. Wigley, of the English Bar, for revision of the chapters on the Indian Empire; Sir W.H. Greaves, Chief Justice of Barbados; Mr. E.Bateson, formerly Attorney-General of St. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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