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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution
Author: New York (State)
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Category : Albany (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Category : Albany (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Defying Empire
Author: Thomas M. Truxes
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300150431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed to end North America’s wartime trade with the French, New York’s merchant elite conducted a thriving business in the French West Indies, insisting that their behavior was protected by long practice and British commercial law. But the government in London viewed it as treachery, and its subsequent efforts to discipline North American commerce inflamed the colonists.Through fast-moving events and unforgettable characters, historian Thomas M. Truxes brings eighteenth-century New York and the Atlantic world to life. There are spies, street riots, exotic settings, informers, courtroom dramas, interdictions on the high seas, ruthless businessmen, political intrigues, and more. The author traces each phase of the city’s trade with the enemy and details the frustrations that affected both British officials and independent-minded New Yorkers. The first book to focus on New York City during the Seven Years’ War, Defying Empire reveals the important role the city played in hastening the colonies’ march toward revolution.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300150431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed to end North America’s wartime trade with the French, New York’s merchant elite conducted a thriving business in the French West Indies, insisting that their behavior was protected by long practice and British commercial law. But the government in London viewed it as treachery, and its subsequent efforts to discipline North American commerce inflamed the colonists.Through fast-moving events and unforgettable characters, historian Thomas M. Truxes brings eighteenth-century New York and the Atlantic world to life. There are spies, street riots, exotic settings, informers, courtroom dramas, interdictions on the high seas, ruthless businessmen, political intrigues, and more. The author traces each phase of the city’s trade with the enemy and details the frustrations that affected both British officials and independent-minded New Yorkers. The first book to focus on New York City during the Seven Years’ War, Defying Empire reveals the important role the city played in hastening the colonies’ march toward revolution.
The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution: 1664-1719
Author: New York (Colony)
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Category : Albany (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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Category : Albany (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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McKinney's Consolidated Laws of New York Annotated
Author: New York (State)
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution, Including the Charters to the Duke of York, the Commission and Instructions to Colonial Governors, the Dukes Laws, the Laws of the Donagan and Leisler Assemblies, the Charters of Albany and New York and the Acts of the Colonial Legislatures from 1691 to 1775 Inclusive ...
Author: New York (Colony)
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut
Author: Edward Rodolphus Lambert
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Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution ...
Author: New York (State)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Languages : en
Pages : 946
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The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the State, Territories, and Colonies Now Or Heretofore Forming the United States of America: Kentucky ; Massachusetts
Author: Francis Newton Thorpe
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660
Author: Bradley Chapin
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820336912
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This study analyzes the development of criminal law during the first several generations of American life. Its comparison of the substantive and procedural law among the colonies reveals the similarities and differences between the New England and the Chesapeake colonies. Bradley Chapin addresses the often-debated question of the “reception” of English law and makes estimates of the relative weight of the sources and methods of early American law. A main theme of his book is that colonial legislators and judges achieved a significant reform of the English criminal law at a time when a parallel movement in England failed. The analysis is made specific and concrete by statistics that show patterns of prosecutions and crime rates. In addition to the exciting and convincing theme of a “lost period” of great creativity in American criminal law, Chapin gives a wealth of detail on statutory and common-law rulings, noteworthy criminal cases, and judicial views of how the law was to be administered. He provides social and economic explanations of shifts and peculiarities in the law, using carefully arranged evidence from the records. His treatment of the Quaker cases in Massachusetts and the witchcraft prosecutions in New England throws new light on those frequently misunderstood episodes. Chapin's book will be of interest not only to scholars working in the field but also to anyone curious about early American legal history.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820336912
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This study analyzes the development of criminal law during the first several generations of American life. Its comparison of the substantive and procedural law among the colonies reveals the similarities and differences between the New England and the Chesapeake colonies. Bradley Chapin addresses the often-debated question of the “reception” of English law and makes estimates of the relative weight of the sources and methods of early American law. A main theme of his book is that colonial legislators and judges achieved a significant reform of the English criminal law at a time when a parallel movement in England failed. The analysis is made specific and concrete by statistics that show patterns of prosecutions and crime rates. In addition to the exciting and convincing theme of a “lost period” of great creativity in American criminal law, Chapin gives a wealth of detail on statutory and common-law rulings, noteworthy criminal cases, and judicial views of how the law was to be administered. He provides social and economic explanations of shifts and peculiarities in the law, using carefully arranged evidence from the records. His treatment of the Quaker cases in Massachusetts and the witchcraft prosecutions in New England throws new light on those frequently misunderstood episodes. Chapin's book will be of interest not only to scholars working in the field but also to anyone curious about early American legal history.