TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nelson,William E.
TI  - The common law in colonial America
SN  - 9780190465087
AV  - KF361 .N45 2016
U1  - 349.7309032 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Law
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
KW  - thema
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2016; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 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
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190465056.001.0001
ER  -