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Book Synopsis The Courts and the Colonies by : Alvin J. Esau
Download or read book The Courts and the Colonies written by Alvin J. Esau and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Courts and the Colonies offers a detailed account of a protracted dispute arising within a Hutterite colony in Manitoba, when the Schmiedeleut leaders attempted to force the departure of a group that had been excommunicated but would not leave. This resulted in about a dozen lawsuits in both Canada and the United States between various Hutterite factions and colonies, and placed the issues of shunning, excommunication, legitimacy of leadership, and communal property rights before the secular courts. What is the story behind this extraordinary development in Hutterite history? How did the courts respond, and how did that outside (state) law relate to the traditional inside law of the Hutterites? Utilizing voluminous court records, Esau provides a detailed and fascinating narrative of the prolonged disputes and litigation history of Hutterite colonies at Lakeside, Oak Bluff, Rock Lake, and Huron. He considers whether the legal action was consistent with the historic non-resistance of Hutterites or whether it signaled a fundamental change in norms of Anabaptist perspectives on litigation. He examines the past history of Hutterite litigation, and how the roots of the schism related to controversy over the Schmiedeleut leadership and its alliance with the Bruderhof, a group of Christian communalists, living mainly in the Eastern United States. At stake is the nature of freedom of religion in Canada and the extent to which our pluralistic society is prepared to accommodate the existence of groups that have an illiberal legal system that may not cohere with the outside legal system of the host society. While this book will be of particular interest to scholars of law and religion, it will also appeal to anyone in Anabaptist studies, sociology, anthropology, political theory, and conflict resolution.
Download or read book COURTS AND COLONIES. written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 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 by : Charles Clark
Download or read book 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 written by Charles Clark and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660 by : Bradley Chapin
Download or read book Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660 written by Bradley Chapin and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Courts and Colonies written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Justice in Colonial Virginia by : Oliver Perry Chitwood
Download or read book Justice in Colonial Virginia written by Oliver Perry Chitwood and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colonial Laws and Courts by : William Burge
Download or read book Colonial Laws and Courts written by William Burge and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Law and People in Colonial America by : Peter Charles Hoffer
Download or read book Law and People in Colonial America written by Peter Charles Hoffer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998-02-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis English Common Law in the Early American Colonies by : Paul Samuel Reinsch
Download or read book English Common Law in the Early American Colonies written by Paul Samuel Reinsch and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colonial Laws and Courts by : William Burge
Download or read book Colonial Laws and Courts written by William Burge and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Judicial Supremacy and the Inferior Courts in the American Colonies by : Richard Brandon Morris
Download or read book Judicial Supremacy and the Inferior Courts in the American Colonies written by Richard Brandon Morris and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis E Pluribus Unum by : William E. Nelson
Download or read book E Pluribus Unum written by William E. Nelson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colonies that comprised pre-revolutionary America had thirteen legal systems and governments. Given their diversity, how did they evolve into a single nation? In E Pluribus Unum, the eminent legal historian William E. Nelson explains how this diverse array of legal orders gradually converged over time, laying the groundwork for the founding of the United States. From their inception, the colonies exercised a range of approaches to the law. For instance, while New England based its legal system around the word of God, Maryland followed the common law tradition, and New York adhered to Dutch law. Over time, though, the British crown standardized legal procedure in an effort to more uniformly and efficiently exert control over the Empire. But, while the common law emerged as the dominant system across the colonies, its effects were far from what English rulers had envisioned. E Pluribus Unum highlights the political context in which the common law developed and how it influenced the United States Constitution. In practice, the triumph of the common law over competing approaches gave lawyers more authority than governing officials. By the end of the eighteenth century, many colonial legal professionals began to espouse constitutional ideology that would mature into the doctrine of judicial review. In turn, laypeople came to accept constitutional doctrine by the time of independence in 1776. Ultimately, Nelson shows that the colonies' gradual embrace of the common law was instrumental to the establishment of the United States. Not simply a masterful legal history of colonial America, Nelson's magnum opus fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the sources of both the American Revolution and the Founding.
Book Synopsis SUMMARY OF COLONIAL LAW THE PR by : Charles D. 1881 Clark
Download or read book SUMMARY OF COLONIAL LAW THE PR written by Charles D. 1881 Clark and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
Book Synopsis 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 by : Charles Clark
Download or read book 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 written by Charles Clark and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Common Law in Colonial America by : William E. Nelson
Download or read book The Common Law in Colonial America written by William E. Nelson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William E. Nelson's first volume of the four-volume The Common Law of Colonial America (2008) established a new benchmark for study of colonial era legal history. Drawing from both a rich archival base and existing scholarship on the topic, the first volume demonstrated how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies-each of which had unique economies, political structures, and religious institutions -slowly converged into a common law order that differed substantially from English common law. The first volume focused on how the legal systems of the Chesapeake colonies--Virginia and Maryland--contrasted with those of the New England colonies and traced these dissimilarities from the initial settlement of America until approximately 1660. In this new volume, Nelson brings the discussion forward, covering the years from 1660, which saw the Restoration of the British monarchy, to 1730. In particular, he analyzes the impact that an increasingly powerful British government had on the evolution of the common law in the New World. As the reach of the Crown extended, Britain imposed far more restrictions than before on the new colonies it had chartered in the Carolinas and the middle Atlantic region. The government's intent was to ensure that colonies' laws would align more tightly with British law. Nelson examines how the newfound coherence in British colonial policy led these new colonies to develop common law systems that corresponded more closely with one another, eliminating much of the variation that socio-economic differences had created in the earliest colonies. As this volume reveals, these trends in governance ultimately resulted in a tension between top-down pressures from Britain for a more uniform system of laws and bottom-up pressures from colonists to develop their own common law norms and preserve their own distinctive societies. Authoritative and deeply researched, the volumes in The Common Law of Colonial America will become the foundational resource for anyone interested the history of American law before the Revolution.
Book Synopsis History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts by : William Thomas Davis
Download or read book History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts written by William Thomas Davis and published by Boston : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1900 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 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 by : Charles Clark
Download or read book 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 written by Charles Clark and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from 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: With Charters of Justice, Orders in Council, Etc Upon a Colonial question of considerable importance, an honourable member of the House of Commons was recently compelled to apply to his various acquaintances for the means of obtaining that information which none of our public libraries afforded him. Even the Almanacks of the different Colonies, works containing more authentic legal information than our knowledge of what Almanacks are In this country would lead us to suppose, are rarely to be met with where they might most be expected to be found. 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.
