TY - BOOK AU - Nelson,William Edward TI - The common law in colonial America SN - 9780199870677 (ebook) : AV - KF361 U1 - 349.7309032 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Law KW - United States KW - History KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - In this four-volume series, the author shows how the legal systems of Britain's 13 North American colonies - initially established in response to divergent political, economic, and religious initiatives - slowly converged into a common American legal order that differed substantially from English common law UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195327281.001.0001 ER -