The Common Law in Colonial America: Volume III: The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750

In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E. Nelson will show how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies, which were initially established in response to divergent political, economic, and religious initiatives, slowly converged
until it became possible by the 1770s to imagine that all thirteen participated in a common American legal order, which diverged in its details but differed far more substantially from English common law. Volume three, The Chesapeake and New England, 1660-1750, reveals how Virginia, which was
founded to earn profit, and Massachusetts, which was founded for Puritan religious ends, had both adopted the common law by the mid-eighteenth century and begun to converge toward a common American legal model. The law in the other New England colonies, Nelson argues, although it was distinctive in
some respects, gravitated toward the Massachusetts model, while Maryland's law gravitated toward that of Virginia.


Author: William E. Nelson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/18/2016
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780190465056

About the Author

William E. Nelson, is the Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and Professor of History, at New York University.

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